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REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE TO GEORGE II.
047
The following is the tune to which the words have been sung for nearly a
century. By comparing it with the older version of Tlie Country Lass, at p. 376,
the reader will see what variations time has made.
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Her father he makes cahbage-nets,
And through the streets does cry them ;
Her mother she sells laces long,
To such as please to buy them :
But sure such folks could ne'er beget
So sweet a girl as Sally ;
She is the darling of my heart,
And lives in our alley.
When she is by, I leave my work,
I love her so sincerely;
My master comes, like any Turk,
And bangs me most severely :
But let him bang, long as he will,
I'll bear it all for Sally ;
She is the darling of my heart,
And lives in our alley.
Of all the days are in the week,
1 dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday :
For then I'm dress'd in all my best,
To walk abroad with Sally ;
She is the darling of my heart,
And lives in our alley.
My master carries me to church,
And often I am blamed,
Because I leave him in the lurch,
Soon as the text is named :
I leave the church in sermon time,
And slink away to Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And lives in our alley.