Four Popular Songs (8)/Easter Monday

by Anonymous

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EASTER MONDAY.

A Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl,
I'm a bit of a beast, 'for I live in a stall,
With an ugly old wife and a tortoise-shell cat,
I mend boots and shoes with a rat a tat tat.

This morning at breakfast on bacon and spinage,
Says I my wife, I'm going to Greenwich,
Says she "Dicky Awl ay and I will go too",
Says I, "Mrs. Awl, I'll be d—d if you do.

One word bred another O shocking mishap!
She gave me the lie, and I gave her the strap,
To tarry at home then I thought it a sin,
So I soon bolted out but I bolted her in,

To Greenwich by water I merrilly sped,
And saw them all rolling it heels over head,
The sun was so bright and so high the wind blew,
I spied what I don't wish to mention to you.

But when I got home, (it is true on my life)
Billy Button the tailor was of with my wife:
Though old Mrs. Awl has no fancy to bolts,
She has but one tooth but that tooth is a colts

Ah! Sally my love, 'twas a very bad plan,
To cut me, and choose the ninth part of a man,
She thought in eloping so funny and tricky,
With poor Dicky Awl it would soon be all Dicky

If Bill and my rib should get into a fray,
He may sell her by auction the next market day,
If nobody bids for the sweet pretty elf,
Knock her down my dear Billy and keep her yourself.