A collection of comic songs written, Compil'd, Etch'd and Engrav'd, by J. Robertson; and sung by him At the theatres Nottingham, Derby, Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield, and Redford |
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Now I rais'd up a friend, and we 'scap'd from these folks,
And I soon left the country and all their queer jokes;
And now am resolv'd, and so is my wife,
To be a brave Irishman all my whole life.
And I soon left the country and all their queer jokes;
And now am resolv'd, and so is my wife,
To be a brave Irishman all my whole life.
(Speaking).
Ay, and return back to Dublin immediately, for fear I shou'd
end my life here; for that same thing call'd a gallows, is a disease very fatal
to our family; for there is about a dozen gone that way already.—If you
had heard them sing,
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