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02 Oct 15 - 01:24 PM (#3741375) Subject: Tune Req: I'm Jolly Dick, the Lamplighter From: GUEST,TH Groves Hello I am looking for the tune to "I'm Jolly Dick, the Lamplighter". It is listed as the air for the following song. The Printer's Devil. Air - "I'm Jolly Dick, the Lamplighter" I'M saucy Nick, and would you know My birth and education, I'll tell ye, 'cause I likes to show I'm not of vulgar station: 'Tis true I never saw my dad, But folks are very civil, They say as how he lives below, Old Nick his name, like mine egad, And I'm a printer's devil- One night dad set a mount on fire, At last it 'gan to groan, Then up I flew, and in the mire I fell a pummice-stone. But die I should not father swore, I'm sure 'twas monstrous civil; So light and trim, He made me swim, Until at last he drove ashore I'm now I'm a printer's devil. My master Inky thought, d'ye see, To keep me in my station, But father's deeper far than he, He's had an education. He swore that I should rub no more, I'm sure 'twas monstrous civil; So quick and straight, He chang'd my gate ; And so, sir, as I said before, I'm now a printer's devil. I by-and-by a vamp shall be, And have the poet's plenty ; And then, sir, what dy'e think of me, I'll damn a ten or twenty. You see how deep old father he, Yet sure he's monstrous civil-- A lad like I, You'll seldom spy So quickly chang'd from low degree, To be a printer's devil. Then ye who quibble so and quirk, I pray leave off your sarmont, But do a little dirty work, And soon you'll gain prefarment. I've heard a snug warm birth ye like, And father's monstrous civil- He'll warm you all, Both great and small, So take my 'vice and then be like, You'll praise the printer's devil. |
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02 Oct 15 - 02:50 PM (#3741387) Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm Jolly Dick, the Lamplighter From: GUEST,# Full text of "The selected songs of Charles Dibdin with ... Go to p. 237. It starts there and god for a few pages. |