The Sailor's Wife's Policy, or, the Knowing Barber Taken in/The Sweet Little Girl that I Love
The Sweet Little Girl that I Love.
MY friends all declare that my time is mispent,
while in rural retirement I rove,
I ask no more wealth than dame Fortune has sent,
but the sweet little girl that I love.
Chor. The sweet little girl that I love,
The rose on her cheek's my delight;
She's soft as the down, as the down on the dove,
No lily's so white as the sweet little girl that I love,
Tho' humble my cot, calm content gilds the scene,
for my fair one delights in my grove;
And a palace I'd quit for a dance on the green,
with the sweet little girl that I love. The, etc.
No ambition I know but to call her my own,
no same but her praise wish to prove;
My happiness centers in Fanny alone,
she's the sweet little girl that I love. The, etc.
Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1802.