Legal & Other Lyrics By George Outram: Containing a number of new pieces & fifteen illustrations by Edward J. Sullivan |
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THE BARLEY-FEVER |
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THE BARLEY-FEVER
Oh the Barley-fever!
The Barley-fever, the Barley-fever!
It sticks like a burr, or a plough in a fur,
An' it fells a man like a cleaver.
Yer beard turns lang, an' yer head turns bald,
An' yer face grows as white as the lipo' a scald;
Yer tae end is het, and the tither is cauld,
Like a rat wi' its tail in a siever.
The Barley-fever, the Barley-fever!
It sticks like a burr, or a plough in a fur,
An' it fells a man like a cleaver.
Yer beard turns lang, an' yer head turns bald,
An' yer face grows as white as the lipo' a scald;
Yer tae end is het, and the tither is cauld,
Like a rat wi' its tail in a siever.
Oh the Barley-fever!
The Barley-fever, the Barley-fever!
It gars the best soul grow as toom as a bowl,
An'as flat as the doup o'a weaver.
The Typhus tak's folk that are no very clean,
The Scarlet's content wi'a fat fozy wean;
But the Barley tak's rich, poor, clean, dirty, fat, lean,
The infidel and the believer.
The Barley-fever, the Barley-fever!
It gars the best soul grow as toom as a bowl,
An'as flat as the doup o'a weaver.
The Typhus tak's folk that are no very clean,
The Scarlet's content wi'a fat fozy wean;
But the Barley tak's rich, poor, clean, dirty, fat, lean,
The infidel and the believer.
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