Four Popular Songs (8)/Easter Monday
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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.
