Reminiscences
The following old songs were among those which were popular in the country in bygone days :�
When the morn stands on tiptoe
Yet greater the pleasure, |
The echoing horn
Away to the shaws
Hedge, gate and stile
With bottle and friend |
Over the mountain and over the moor,
Over the mountain Pity, kind gentlemen, friends of humanity,
Call me not "lazy-back beggar" and "bold enough," Over the mountain Pity, kind gentlemen, etc.
O, think, while you revel, so careless and free, Over the mountain Pity, kind gentlemen, etc.
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There was an old farmer in Sussex did dwell
And he had a bad wife, as many knew well,
Then Satan came to the old man at the plough �
"It is not your eldest son that I do crave,
"Oh! welcome, good Satan, with all my heart;
Now Satan he got the old wife on his back,
He trudged away till he came to his gate,
"Oh ! then she did kick all the young imps about;
She spied seven devils, all dancing in chains,
She knocked old Satan against the wall�
Now he's bundled her up on his back amain,
"I've been a tormentor the whole of my life, |
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Reminiscences