Lyr Add: Peter Waggy

Subject: Peter Waggy
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 22 May 00 - 07:37 PM

Peter Waggy
written in 1826

I, when a child, for trinket ware
Would often cry to mam and daddie;
With other trifles, from the fair,
Dad brought me once a Peter Waggy.

Fine dolls, and many things forby,
A gilded coach and little naggie;
But oh, the darling of my eye,
Was little dancingf Peter Waggy!

Love of such trifles time destroys--
At length each well-grown lass and laddie
Seeks to be pleas'd with other toys,
Some other sort of Peter Waggy.

A lover came to me at last,
In courting me he ne'er grew faggy;
Now he and I are buckled fast--
He is my darling Peter Waggy.

We've got a boy of beauty rare
A credit to his mam and daddie;
When I go to Newcastle Fair,
I'll buy my child a Peter Waggy.

H. Robson,-In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.