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Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890
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The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873

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1.	in comes i bold tom a brisk and lively young fellow
2.	i have come to taste of your best beef and ale they tell me it is so ripe and mellow
3.	good evening ladies and gentlemen all
4.	it s plough monday to night that makes tom so bold as to call
5.	but don t take in all i have got to say
6.	there s plenty more lads and lasses on the way
7.	some can dance and some can sing
8.	by your consent they shall come in
9.	oking poking france and spain
10.	the recruiting sergeant just the same
11.	in come i the recruiting sergeant i have just arrived at here
12.	i have orders from the queen to enlist all jolly fellows that follow horse cart or plough
13.	tinkers tailors pedlars nailers all to my advance
14.	the more i hear the fiddle play the better i can dance
15.	faith can thee dance i can dance sing or say
16.	if you begin to dance i soon shall march away
17.	in comes i that lost my mate
18.	drooping tears hangs down my fate
19.	pity my condition i do declare
20.	for a false young girl i am in despair
21.	behold the lady bright and gay good fortune and sweet charms
22.	how scornfully i have been thrown away right out of my true love s arms
23.	he swears if i don t wed with him which you will understand
24.	he ll enlist him for a soldier and go into some foreign land
25.	come all ye lads that has a mind
26.	for enlisting and do not be afraid
27.	you shall have all kinds of liquors
28.	likewise kiss the pretty maid
29.	are you free hearted and willing young man
30.	on your hat i pin this ribbon
31.	in your hand i place this shilling
32.	thank you kind sergeant for your offer if i stay longer i may fare worse
33.	dash my wig if i will grieve any longer for this proud and saucy lass
34.	since my love is listed and entered volunteer
35.	i neither mean to sigh for him nor shed one tear
36.	dost thou love me my pretty fair maid
37.	yes tommy to my sorrow
38.	when shall be our wedding day
39.	tommy love to morrow
40.	they make bands and we shake hands
41.	and tommy love to morrow
42.	in comes i old thrashing blade all good people ought to know
43.	my old dad learnt me this trade just ninety years ago
44.	i have thrashed in this part of the country
45.	and in many other parts
46.	i will thrash you tommy before i go
47.	that s the way to give it him
48.	in comes i old hopper joe
49.	i can either plough sow reap or mow
50.	and i hope the master will bestow
51.	all he can afford us in our hopper o
52.	not only that i am old sankey benny
53.	i have three or four yards of black and white tape in my pocket
54.	i will sell you it all for a penny
55.	sank my lad what have you got in the hardware line
56.	anything but soft soap and treacle
57.	them s just the two things that i have not got
58.	i ll call on you a week last tuesday
59.	thank you old rag bag
60.	in comes i the farmer s man
61.	don t you see my capping hand
62.	i go forth and plough the master s land
63.	and turn it upside down
64.	how i straight i go from end to end
65.	i scarcely make a baulk or bend
66.	and to my horses i attend
67.	as they go marching round the end
68.	hov ve gee wo
69.	in comes i old dame jane with a neck as long as a crane
70.	dib dab over the meadow
71.	once i was a blooming maid now i am a downright old widow
72.	long time i have sought thee and now i have caught thee
73.	tommy take the child
74.	the child jane
75.	it s none of mine
76.	who told you bring it here
77.	the overseer of the parish told me to bring it to the biggest fool i could find
78.	and i think you be him
79.	for its eyes nose cheeks and chin
80.	is as much like you as ever it can grin
81.	is it a boy or a girl
82.	it is a girl
83.	mine is all boys
84.	take it and swear it to the town pump old rag bag
85.	in comes i beelzebub
86.	on my shoulder i carry my club
87.	in my hand a wet leather frying pan
88.	don t you think i m a funny old man
89.	is there any old woman that can stand afore me
90.	i think i can
91.	my head is made of iron my body made of steel	my head is not of iron my body is not of steel
92.	my hands and feet of knuckle bone i think nobody can make me feel
93.	if your head is made of iron your body made of steel	my head is not of iron my body is not of steel
94.	your hands and feet of knuckle bone
95.	i think i can make me feel old girl
96.	oh beelzey oh beelzey what hast thou done	oh see oh see what hast thou done
97.	thou hast kilt the old woman and limted her son
98.	five pounds for a doctor
99.	ten to stop away
100.	fifteen to come in
101.	wo my lad take hold of my donkey
102.	and mind he does not kick you
103.	in comes i the doctor
104.	you the doctor
105.	yes me the doctor
106.	how came you to be the doctor	what made thee doctor
107.	by my travels	my travels
108.	where have you travelled
109.	england ireland scotland wales
110.	back again to doctor old england	and by good luck and fortune i returned to old england again
111.	fireside bedside by my old grandmother s cupboard side	yes yes saint george from the front door to the cupboard cupboard to the fireplace fireplace and to bed
112.	where i have had many pieces of pork pie
113.	that makes me as big and fine a fellow as you are tom
114.	is that all your travels
115.	no
116.	when i was down in yorkshire
117.	my old grandmother tumbled upstairs with an empty teapot full of flour
118.	and grazed her shin bone
119.	and made her stocking leg bleed
120.	and i cured that
121.	what diseases can you cure
122.	the hipsy pipsy palsy and the gout
123.	aches within aches without
124.	draw a leg set a tooth
125.	and almost raise the dead to life again
126.	you seem a very clever young man
127.	you better try a little of your skill
128.	thank you kind sir
129.	i ll show you a pretty pass when i get my glasses on
130.	i ll feel of this old body s pulse first
131.	her pulse beats very irregularly
132.	nineteen times to the tick of my watch once
133.	she is in a very low way
134.	she will not get a deal lower without there is a hole dug for her
135.	she has been living on green potato tops
136.	a fortnight without water
137.	she has swallowed a donkey and cart and can t digest the wheels
138.	now old lady let me see your tongue
139.	let me hear you cough
140.	i have a little drop of snick snarle in my coat waistcoat breeches pocket lining	ladies and gentlemen i ve a little bottle of medicine
141.	shaken before taken
142.	one drop in a morning two at night
143.	and swallow the bottle at dinner time
144.	i have also got a box of my fatmetical pills
145.	you must take one in the morning two at night
146.	and swallow the box at tea time
147.	which will help to digest the wheels
148.	and purify your blood
149.	do you know good ladies and gentlemen
150.	this old girl is not really dead she is in a trance
151.	so raise her up and let her dance
152.	if she can t dance we can sing
153.	so raise her up and let s begin
154.	good master and good mistress as you sit round your fire
155.	remember us poor plough lads that plough through mud and mire
156.	the mire has been so very deep we travel far and near
157.	we thank you for a christmas box and a pitcher of your best beer
158.	we thank you for civility and what you gave us here
159.	we wish you all good night and another happy year

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Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890
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