Four Popular Songs (3)/What are you going to stand?

by Anonymous

What are you going to stand?

 

Queer scenes now are all the go,
you cannot say I'm wrong:
And there is one I'd have you know,
I've worked into a song
Go where I will—in every street,
I'm shook sirs by the hand.
No matter who it is I meet
what are you going to stand?

One morn I'd been to get some cash
from a swell at the west end
Resolv d I was to cat a cash,
when I met with a friend.

I told him of the errand I'd been,
when he takes me by the hand,
I'm glad to hear my boy says he,
what are you going to stand?

Says I I doesn t mind a drop
my spirits (illegible text)ouse;
So then we (illegible text) in a shop.
near to Somerset house.
Inside a lot began to shout,
as if't had been a plan;
It is not often we get you out,
now what are you going to stand?

I spent, sir, very near a crown,
my cash was getting shorter,
For the liquor went (illegible text)ling down,
as though it had been water.
A wench began my arm to shake,
I could her hide have tann'd.
When she said for old acquaintance sake,
what are you going to stand?

Thinks I, egad this will not do,
so I bolted from the lot;
But run against a man I knew,
ere a hundred yards I got;
I told him of the crew I met,
says he I understand;
Now you've escap'd from such a lot,
what are you going to stand?

My song I'll now conclude in this,
you ll all agree I think,
My friends that this is quite the March
of Intellect for Drink.
When the landlord he puts out their light,
I'll take him by the hand.
You've had a very good room my boy to-night,
what are you going to stand?

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