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THE JOLLY SAILOR.
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A last born o^birth and fame,
To Greenwich town for pleasure came.
Where she a sailor did behold,'
Both tall and trim, of courage bold.
She view'd him with her lovely eyee,
Her heart was fill'd with great iurprise(
For he was handsome tall and trim.
This lady fell in love with him.
Her chief care was to let him know,
How she did love this sailor so ;
And as they met upon £day.
She to the Sailor thus did say.
I understand you have no wife,
What-makes you lead a single life ?
The Sailor thus to her reply'd,
I for myself can scarce provide.
And if I had a family,
Their wants I could not well supply;
^*aides Lady, there's one thing more,
Vi to \ 19 go where cannons roar.
And it «,y mischance should be,
There's no tta, kfj to mourn lor me,
t£IOl •':» •’
A last born o^birth and fame,
To Greenwich town for pleasure came.
Where she a sailor did behold,'
Both tall and trim, of courage bold.
She view'd him with her lovely eyee,
Her heart was fill'd with great iurprise(
For he was handsome tall and trim.
This lady fell in love with him.
Her chief care was to let him know,
How she did love this sailor so ;
And as they met upon £day.
She to the Sailor thus did say.
I understand you have no wife,
What-makes you lead a single life ?
The Sailor thus to her reply'd,
I for myself can scarce provide.
And if I had a family,
Their wants I could not well supply;
^*aides Lady, there's one thing more,
Vi to \ 19 go where cannons roar.
And it «,y mischance should be,
There's no tta, kfj to mourn lor me,
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Soldiers and sailors > Collection of popular songs > (2) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/108851466 |
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| Description | Viz. The jolly sailor, Betsy Taylor's lamentation, The hen-peck'd husband, The gallant sailor. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2817(14) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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