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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. |
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When Christmas comes about again,
O then I shall have money ; I'll hoard it up, and box and all,
I'll give unto my honey: I would it were ten thousand pounds,
I'd give it all to Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And lives in our alley. |
My master and the neighbours all,
Make game of me and Sally, And but for her I'd better be
A slave, and row a galley : But when my sev'n long years are out,
Oh, then I'll marry Sally, And then how happily we'll live—
But not in our alley. |
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Tncledon sang only the first, second, fourth, and last verses.
AS DOWN IN THE MEADOWS. This pretty and graceful song is to be found in The Merry Musician, or A Cure for the Spleen, ii. 129; in Watts's Musical Miscellany, i. 62 ; and on many broadsides with music.
The tune was introduced by Gay in his ballad-opera of Polly, 1729; also in The Gobblers' Opera, The Court Legacy, The Lovers' Opera, &c.
The same words were afterwards set by Oswald, but he was not successful in his music. A copy will be found in the Burney Collection.
This is sometimes entitled " Susan's Complaint and Remedy." |
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