Lyr Add: All Round My Hat

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: All Round My Hat
From: Nonie Rider
Date: 12 Dec 97 - 06:20 PM

So, has anyone done an AIDS parody re wearing a RED ribbon?

Subject: Lyr Add: ALL ROUND MY HAT
From: Bruce O.
Date: 11 Dec 97 - 08:13 PM

A transportation ballad.

[Published as sheet music song by the younger Dales, 1835, according to Frank Kidson, 'British Music Publisherrs, Printers, and Engravers'.]

All Round My Hat

Chorus:
All round my hat I vears a green villow,
All round my hat for a twelvemonth and a day,
If any one should ax it, the reason vy I vears it,
Tell them that my true love is far, far away.

'Twas going of my rounds in the streets I did meet her,
Oh, I thought she vas an hangel just come down from the sky,
(Spoken) She'd a nice wegitable countenance, Turnip nose, Redish cheeks, and Carroty hair.

And I never heard a woice more louder and more sweeter,
Vhen she cried, buy my Primroses, my Primroses come buy.
(Spoken) Here's your fine Colliflowers!

Oh, my love she vas fair, and my love she vas kind, too,
And cruel vas the judge vot my love had to try,
(Spoken) Here's your precious Turnips!

For thieving vas a thing she never vas inclined to,
But he sent my love across the seas, far, far away.
(Spoken) Here's your hard hearted Cabbages!

For seven long years my love and I are parted,
For seven long years, my love is bound to stay.
(Spoken) 'Tis a precious long time 'fore I does any trade to-day.

Bad luck to the chap vot'd ever be false hearted,
Oh, I'd love my love for ever, though she's far away.
(Spoken) Herrre's your nice heads of Sallary!

There is some young men is so precious deceitful,
A coaxing of the young girls they wish to lead astray.
(Spoken) Here's your Valnuts, crack 'em and try 'em s shillin' a hundred!

As soon as they deceive 'em, so cruelly-ly they leave 'em,
And they never sighs nor sorrows, ven they're far away.
(Spoken) Do you want any Hinguns to day, marm?

Oh, I bought my love a ring, on the werry day she started,
Vich I gave her as a token all to remember me,
(Spoken) Bless her heyes.

And vhen she does come back oh, ve'll never more be parted,
But ve'll marry, and be happy, oh, for ever and a day.
(Spoken) Here's your fine spring Radishes!