Child Ballads - Appendix

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Appendix

'T was on Christmas Day,' found on a slip, "Sold at No 42 Long Lane," in a volume in the British Museum, 1876. e (not paged, but at what would be p. 57), and again in The New Covent Garden Concert, London, Printed and sold by J. Evans, No 41 Long-Lane, West Smithfield, Br. Mus. 1077. g. 47 (4), dated in the catalogue "1805?"

	'Twas on Christmas Day Father he did wed; Three months after that My mother was brought to bed. My father he came home, His head with liquor stord, And found in mother's room A silver-hilted sword.
	Fiddle de dum de de, etc.
	'How came this sword here?' My mother says, says she, 'Lovee, 't is a poker Antee sent to me.' Father he stumbld and star'd; 'Twas the first, I ween, Silver-headed poker He had ever seen.
	Father grumbled on, But getting into bed Egad! as luck fell out, A man popd up his head; 'That's my milk-maid,' says she; Says dad, I never heard In all my travels yet A milk-maid with a beard.'
	My father found a whip, And very glad was he; 'And how came this whip here, Without the leave of me?' 'Oh! that's a nice strap-lace My antee sent to me;' Egad I he lac'd her stays, And out of doors went she.

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