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Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
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Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s

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Line	Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899	Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s
1.	i open the door i enter in	hopen the doar and lat me in
2.	i see bold face before i win	i hope your faver i shall wind
3.	whether i sit stand or fall	wether irise or wether ifoll
4.	i ll do my duty to please you all	i will do my endeavour to please you all
5.	a room a room a gallant room a room to let us in
6.	we are not of the ragged sort but of the royal king
7.	if you don t believe these words i say
8.	step in king george and clear the way
9.	in comes i king george king george is my name
10.	sword and pistol by my side i am bound to win the game
11.	game sir it s not within your power
12.	i ll chop you into mince meat in less than half an hour
13.	you sir
14.	yes me sir
15.	draw swords and try
16.	is there a doctor to be found
17.	yes there s a doctor to be found
18.	five pound for a doctor
19.	no five pound
20.	ten pound
21.	no ten pound
22.	here i will give twenty pound
23.	in comes i doctor brown
24.	the cleverest doctor in the town
25.	what cures can you cure	what canst thou cure
26.	all cures hipsy pipsy palsy and the gout	i can cure the hich the stich the pox the gout
27.	pains within and pains without
28.	what s this man got
29.	the gout
30.	there s somebody in him i can surely fetch him out
31.	drink of my bottle and arise
32.	in comes i beelzebub	here comes i ould belzey bob
33.	under my arm i carry my club	upon my shoulder i carry my club
34.	on my head a dripping pan	and in my hand a dripen and
35.	don t you think i m a jolly old man	ham not i a hansam good loocking ould man
36.	in comes i old humpty back in comes i old humpty back	in come my man jack
37.	wife and family on my back
38.	some at the work house some at home
39.	i ll bring the rest when i get home
40.	in comes i the butcher boy
41.	i m not the baby who plays the toy
42.	but the famous butcher of all the land
43.	who kills a sheep with a knife in his hand
44.	in comes i little dick
45.	all head and no wits	with a great head and litle wit
46.	me head so big me wits are so small
47.	i will sing you a song to please you all
48.	the cock sat up in the oak tree the hens came cackling by
49.	i wish you a merry christmas and a good fat pig in the sty
50.	the roads are very dirty my shoes are very thin
51.	i have a little pocket here to put a penny in
52.	sailing down the river in a penny steam boat to see some far off shores
53.	and after sailing seven long years we landed upon the shore
54.	ah ah cabbage on the vingo i see njggero
55.	humbug sam the niggero
56.	i chiggle i chiggle i chiggle laurem sambo
57.	christmas is a coming and the geese are getting fat
58.	will you please put a penny in the old man s hat
59.	if you aint got a penny a half penny will do
60.	if you aint got a half penny god bless you

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Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899versusTruro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s

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Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
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Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s