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Hibaldstow Ploughboys' Play -1901
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Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876

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Line Hibaldstow Ploughboys' Play -1901 Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876
1. good evening ladys and gentlemen  
2. i am making rather a bole call  
3. but christmas time is a merry time i have come to see you all  
4. i hope you will not be ofended for what i have got to say  
5. here is a few more jolly fellows will step in this way  
6. i am a recruited seagant arriving here just now i m a recruiting serjeant arrived ere just now
7. my orders are to enlist all who follow the cart or plough my orders are to list all that follow cart and plough
8. o endeed mr seagant as i suppose you are  
9. you want us bold malishal lads to face the boer war  
10. will boldly face the enemy and do the best we can  
11. and if they don t prove civil we will slay them every one  
12. i am a foreign traveller  
13. i have travelled land and sea  
14. and nothing do i want but a wife  
15. to please me the rest part of my life  
16. i am a lady bright and gay the fortune of my charm i m a lady bright and gay
17. and scornfully i am thrown away into my lover arms  
18. i have meet my dearest jewel she is the comforts of my life  
19. and if she proves true to me i entend her been my wife  
20. madam it is my desire i f i should be the man  
21. all for to gain your fancy love i will do the best i can  
22. i have got both corn and cattle and everything you know  
23. besides a team of horses to draw among the plough  
24. young man you are deceitful as any of the rest  
25. so for for that reason i will have them i love the best  
26. come me lads who is bound for listing come all you lads that s a mind for listin
27. and gan along with me  
28. you shall have all kinds of liquor you shall have all kinds of liquor
29. while you are in our company  
30. war out me lads and let me come in where out my lads let me come in
31. for i am the old chap called indian king i m the chap they call the indian king
32. they have been trying me to slay  
33. but you see i am alive to this very day  
34. in comes a four year old cout here comes a four year old colt
35. a fine as ever was bought as fine a filly as ever was bought
36. he can hotch and he can trot he can otch an he can trot
37. fourteen miles in fifteen hours just like nought  
38. in comes jane with a long leg crayn in comes jane with a long legg d crane
39. rambling over the midow creeping over the meadow
40. once i was a blouming young girl but now i am a down old widow once i was a blooming maid but now a down owd widow
41. gentlemen and ladies you seen our fool is gone  
42. we make it in our business to follow him along  
43. we thank you for civility that you have shown us here  
44. we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year  
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