Jenny's bawbee. To which are added, The Caledonian Laddie. The Tippling Old Cobbler./The Tippling Old Cobbler

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The Tippling Old Cobbler.

A TIPPLING old cobler in London did dwell,
⁠In a snug little house nigh the sign of the bell,
And he had a daughter, whose name it was Nanny,
⁠So soft and so lazy she cou’d’nt work any.
⁠Derry down, down, hey derry down.

She oft went to service but never could stay,
⁠Her aye took the head-ach ; this did her dismay ;
Till at last a Tambourer, as you may remark,
⁠Gave employment to her, and she dress’d for a spark.

At this trade it is said she did very well,
⁠And few at such handy work could her excel ;
But at scullion, or scodgy, she never could settle.
Being too servile trades for a lass of such mettle.

Now since I've describ'd the Cobler’s daughter
⁠Whole conduct, no doubt, will create some laughter;
I’ll give you a sketch of the tippler’s own life,
⁠And the end of my song will tell of his wife.

At three or four in the afternoon he goes to bed,
⁠Thus he suffers himself by drink to be led ;
At one in the morning, he rises again.
⁠And then to get at his work is very sain.

He works till his daughter and wife do arise,
⁠To work after that, is what he doth despise ;
Out he goes after breakfast, and gives a wink.
Then sets to the ale-house all day for to drink

He tipples the morning and all the forenoon,
⁠When daughter and wife’s in bed he mends his shoon;
In the afternoon drunk he goes to repose,
As I told you before to take a bit dose.

An accident now I will unto you tell,
⁠That to his wife Joan lately befel ;
As she look’d o’er the window one day at a gig,
⁠He gave her a push o’er, and laid her for dead.

But it happ’ned she only had broken her leg,
⁠For that the old fool cared not a fig ;
And soon it fell out, that her leg grew hale,
⁠And she goes about now as it did not her fail.

Ye good people all who read this ditty o’er,
⁠From drinking refrain, while his fate you deplore,
For the cobler we’re told having drunk too much,
Tumbled heads over heels and was cheaked in a ditch.

 

FINIS.