The Country Cousin (1802, Glasgow)/A Drop of a Dram
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A DROP of a DRAM
At two o'the clock my wife puts on her clothes,And straight on the fire the tea-kettle goes,Here's good toast and butter, pray eat if you can,Don't you think it convenient for a drop of a dram.
CHORUS.Let's prittle prattle, tittle tattle, pour out the kettle,O I bought it at the little shop over the way,Straight over the way of that very good man,Don't you think it convenient for a drop of a dram.
Then comes t'other gossip, this is very fine tea,Pray where did you buy it? Straight over the way,Straight over the way of that very good man,Don't you think it convenient for a drop of a dram?
My husband he is a very bad man,He will not allow me one drop of a dram,And when that he does, it is little that I take,It is altogether for company's sake.
In comes t'other gossip, what news have you got?O I have brave news, and 'tis quite piping hot,If one man should lie with another man's wife,You must not speak a word, not a word fer your life.