The Jolly Tinker

verse 1: As I went down a shady lane, at a door I chanced to knock "Have you any pots or kettles, with rusty holes to block?" "Well indeed I have, don't you know I have To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I have" verse 2: The misses came out to the door and she asked me to come in Saying, "You're welcome jolly tinker and I hope you brought your tin" "Well indeed I did, don't you know I did To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I did" verse 3: She took me through the kitchen and she led me through the hall And the servants cried "The devil, has he come to block us all" "Well indeed I have, don't you know I have To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I have" verse 4: She took me up the stairs, me lads, to show me what to do And then she fell on the featherbed and I fell on it too "Well indeed I did, don't you know I did To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I did" VERSE 5: She then picked up the frying pan and she began to knock For to let the servants know, me lads, that I was at me work "Well indeed I was, don't you know I was To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I was" VERSE 6: She put her hand into her pocket and she pulled out twenty pounds Said, "Take this my jolly tinker and we'll have another round" "Well, indeed we will, don't you know we will To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed we will" VERSE 7: Well, I've been a jolly tinker for these forty years or more Oh, but such a lovely job as that, I never did before Well, indeed I didn't, don't you know I didn't N.C. To me right fol-ooral-addy, well indeed I didn't