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Broadside ballad entitled 'Fourteen Bob' |
TranscriptionFOURTEEN BOB Sung with great Success throught all the princpal Copies can always be had at 190 Overgate Dundee. Big Johnnie Shaw a dacent chap He wants tae marry me, Wi forteen bob you see For he's got such winning ways My dear auld mither says. CHORUS And dae the best you can, married tae a man He's got a steady job :But you,ll never be a lady, On his forteen bob. He took me down the water Last friday afternoon, And fix it very soon, Furnenst a half a score I just said I would tak him Noo my mither says if we should hae A family o five. Ere we could keep alive, Well get it neat and clean,. And ah can lick the banes.
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Probable period of publication:
1880-1900 shelfmark: L.C.Fol.70(58b)
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