The Project Gutenberg EBook of Come Lasses and Lads, by Unknown This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Come Lasses and Lads Author: Unknown Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott Release Date: May 7, 2006 [EBook #18341] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COME LASSES AND LADS *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net COME LASSES AND LADS R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOKS Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. London COME LASSES AND LADS Come Lasses and Lads, get leave of your Dads, And away to the May-pole hey: For every he Has got him a she, with a minstrel standing by. For Willy has gotten his Jill, And Johnny has got his Jone, To jigg it, jigg it, jigg it, jigg it, Jigg it up and down. "Strike up," says Watt; "Agreed," says Kate, "And I prithee, Fiddler, play;" "Content," says Hodge, and so says Madge, For this is a Holiday! Then every man did put his hat off to his lass, And every girl did curchy, curchy, curchy on the grass. "Begin," says Hall; "Ay, ay," says Mall, "We'll lead up Packington's pound:" "No, no," says Noll, and so says Doll, "We'll first have Sellenger's round.
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