Lyr Add: My Eppie

Subject: Lyr Add: My Eppie
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jun 04 - 02:41 PM

My Eppie

Acomb, Fallowfield, and Wall lie within about two miles of each other, between Hexam and Chollerford."- Brockie

There was five wives at Acomb,
And fie wives at: Wa',
And five wives at Fallowfield,
That's fifteen o' them a'.

The've drunken ale and brandy
Till they are all fu',
And I cannot get home to
My Eppie I trow,
My Eppie I trow.

The Tyne Water's se deep, that
I cannot wade through;
And I've no horse to ride on My Eppie I trow,
My Eppie I trow,
My Eppie I trow,
And I've no horse to ride to
My Eppie I trow,

In the Tyne I hev not a boat,
Nor yet cou'd I row.

In the Tyne I hev not a boat,
Nor yet cou'd I row
Across the deep water to
My Eppie I trow,
My Eppie I trow,
My Eppie I trow,
And I've no horse to ride to
My Eppie I trow.

-Bell's " Northern Bards," 1812.