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Traditional |
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I will walk the streets up, I will walk the streets down |
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I will see the landlady dressed in a silk gown |
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With my elbows all out and my breeches without knees |
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You are the biggest vagabond that I ever did see. |
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Where I go so raggedy and you go so fine |
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It's of the good money you have took of mine |
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Ale and tobacco for you I have paid |
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If I ain't you'd have gone in your raggedy ways. |
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If I had a-listened to my old woman at the first |
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I might have had silver and gold in my purse |
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To maintain my wife and my children so small |
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But 'tis I, silly drunkard, have ruined them all. |
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I will cock up my hat as I had on before |
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And I'll go home to me wife and I'll love her no more |
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And the more I will beat her the more she will cry |
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And the more silly drunkard and blackguard am I. |