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The second duplicate is actually reprinted for the Holloway and you will Black’s, Later on English Broadside Ballads , p

Discover at least eight English music on the tune, certainly which is a good parody of one’s brand spanking new

Been whatever you roving blades, one to ramble from City, Kissing fairly Maids, listen to my personal ditty, Aside date is coming towards the, as soon as we could be merry, Cat, Poll, and you will Nan, deliver us Sack and you will Sherry. Hi getting Bobbin Joan, Hi to own Stoney Batter, Keep your Wife at home if not I will be on their own. There clearly was Bridget, Peg, and you can Nell, with Nancy, Toy, & Susan, To delight their sweethearts well, possibly will go an excellent boozing, But once their money is fully gone, they will certainly hunt for an excellent Cully, And bring their splinters household, to their dear Bully. Hey having Bobbin Joan, Hello getting Stony Batter, an such like. In summer Lasses wade, into the Fields good Maying, Thro' the fresh new Meadows gay, with their Sweethearts to play, Its cheerful profitable indicates, shewe getting video game its willing, Tho' Jenny cries nay, I won't F--k to possess good shilling. Hello to possess Bobbin Joan, Hey getting Stony Batter, etc. Wade you imaginative Knave, don't out-of coax nor wheedle, Because of the those people Keys in my own Sleve, I will prick your with my needle, What will you will still feel committed, Mammy telephone call compared to that Guy, To possess shame my give do not hold, We guarantee my breathing simply went. Hi to have Bobbin Joan, Hello for Stony Batter, etc. There is certainly Joan a buxom Lass, confronted with lusty Johnny, It went to capture a windows, the guy call'd their particular dear and you can honey, She said your silly Clown, grab myself round the center, Enjoy myself Bobbin Joan, if not I am going to crack their mess. Hey to have Bobbin Joan, Hey getting Stony Batter, etcetera. The guy softly put her off, and then he pull'd out his scraper, He play'd their particular instance a song, hence produced their own fart and you may caper; She said my personal dearest John, your own including a beneficial Jolly rover, My cloak and you may outfit I will pawn, that you ought to n'er give more than. Hi for Bobbin Joan, Hello getting Stony Batter, etce why don't we need a good roam, around Stony Batter, Keep Spouse at home, to possess humpers will be in the their own, Hello having desserts and you may draught beer, Hey for pretty misses, That will never ever fail, to own to top all of our wishes. Hi to have Bobbin Joan, Hey for Stony Batter, Keep your Partner in the home otherwise I am going to stop their liquid, Can be your apples ready, will they be fit for plucking, Is your maid within this, ready into the F--queen.

Their Scots track seems to be first found in book step 3 of Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances , c 1740, as “The main of the Cellar

It demanding Irish ditty, set in the newest Stony Batter quarter of Dublin, is within the Roxburghe collection in the British Collection, and Madden collection at Cambridge. 223, 1975. The day is very uncertain, the fresh Roxburghe collection copy could be a little sooner than 1775.

The brand new song is not named, but is of course one to written in Irish and you will Scots sounds choices while the “Bob and you will Joan,” “Bobin John,” an such like. Singular of English music needs the new track while the “Stony Batter,” the others, “Bob and you can Joan” otherwise particular version on it. ” It’s very among the many tunes in a Scottish dancing tune MS from 1740, written by David Young, and then about Bodleian Library, Oxford. The fresh song was used having “Robin shure within the hairst” [and this to start with had it own track, which can remain receive] in the Scot Sounds Museum , #543, and you will “Talk ye o’er frae France.” Brand new song is actually “Secret out-of ye Provider” in the Uk Lib. MS Addl. 23971 and you may “The latest Celler home key” regarding the Vickers MS, c 1772 (#377 from the Great Northern Track Publication , 1987).