Lyr Add: The Beverly Maid and the Tinker^^

Subject: Add: The Beverly Maid and the Tinker^^
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 26 Feb 99 - 07:06 AM

I figured I had better give something back.

In Beverly town a maid did dwell
A buxom lass and I knew her well-
Her age it was but twenty-two,
And for a man, she had a few-

Fol-de-rollero, diddle-i-ay,
Fol-de-rolleri, Li-de-o.

This maid being generous, kind and free,
And willing to travel the country,
Went to live with a gentleman,
A tinker came to solder her pan-

Fol-de-rollero etc.

The gentleman being from home that day,
The tinker with her did sport and play-
He slyly got her behind the door,
And gave her kisses over and o'er-

Fol-de-rollero etc.

When all was over and at an end,
She tipped him twenty guineas in hand-
"When will you come this way again,
For I have another old kettle to mend"

Fol-de-rollero etc.

In travelling hard and being dry,
He stopped at an alehouse hard close by-
"Landlord, bring me a pot of ale,
for twenty guineas I've earned this day"

Fol-de-rollero etc.

The landlord said, "Well done, me cock,
Your rivets you will boldly knock -
Me liquor is good, your money's fine,
And you will stay with me to dine"

Fol-de-rollero etc.

If all is true, as I've been told,
The tinker he spent all his gold-
He may do as he's done before,
And rivet the maid behind the door.

Fol-de-rollero etc.
x2

Collected by Cecil Sharpe in E. Yorkshire, ca. 1909.

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