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Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914
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A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, c.1860]

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1.	in comes i bold tom as bold as a lion
2.	a blacksmiths shop without any iron
3.	a pair of old bellows all full of holes
4.	an old iron stiddy and not many coals
5.	open spoken france and spain
6.	in comes our sargent on the the same
7.	in comes i the recruting sargent i ve arrived in here just now
8.	i have had orders from the queen to list all fellers that follow orse cart or plough	with orders from the queen to list all you fellows that follows horse and plough
9.	likewise tinkers taylors pedlers and sailors fools at my advance
10.	the more i hear the fiddlers play the better i can dance
11.	what me a fool come to see you dance
12.	yes i can hear them dance sing or play
13.	if you begin to dance sing or play i shall quickly march away
14.	praps in a short time the lady will be here
15.	in comes the lady bright and gay big fortune make sweet charms	in comes i a lady fair my fortune in my charms
16.	its scornful how i m thrown away out of some dear one s arms	it s true i ve turned away out of my true love s arms
17.	he swears if i don t marry him that you will understand	oh he did marry me as all do understand
18.	he ll list all for a soldier and go to some foreign land	and then he listed for a soldier in a far and distant land
19.	do you love me pretty fair maiden
20.	yes unto my sorrow
21.	when st to be our wedding day
22.	tommy loves tomorrow toorooriadio tommys wed tommorio
23.	stop stop stop
24.	whats all thi dancing and jiggin about eres a tight boy to dance
25.	i can dance on a barley chaff riddle
26.	it will neither bend nor break one strand
27.	i am going to ask all you stickmejacks to me and ladys wedding
28.	and what you like the best you must bring on with you
29.	i know what me and me lady likes and what me lady is goin to have
30.	we re going to have a barley chaff dumplin buttered with wool
31.	and a gallon of ropy ale to it
32.	so its ladies and gentlemen s you ve eerd all my part
33.	i can act the fools part just as well as any other
34.	only wait a short time perhaps old dame jane will be ere
35.	in cums i old dame jane with a neck as long as a crane	1. in comes i old jane with my neck as long as a crane 2. here am i old jane with my neck as long as a crane
36.	dib dab over the meadow
37.	once i was a blooming maid but now i am a down right old widow	now i m a poor widow
38.	tommy its a long time since i sawt thee but now i ve caught thee	long time i ve sought thee tom and now i ve found thee
39.	since all my joys exhausted
40.	since you called me what you did pray tommy take your bastard
41.	look at its chin its nose its eyes	look at its eyes nose cheek and chin
42.	its as much like you as ever it could bin	it s a picture of you as ever did grin
43.	what is it he male or shemale
44.	take your feeder and spoon it	take it home and feed it
45.	shemale
46.	all mines hemale
47.	thats my leg you old faggit ive note ter thank you for
48.	only wait a short time old eezum squeezum
49.	in cums i old eezum squeezum
50.	on me back i carry my beezum
51.	in mi hand a whip leather frying pan
52.	bread an cheeze in a bag puddin in a lantern
53.	if you had been where ive been you would never be wanted
54.	is there anybody here can stand afore this	what old woman can sass me
55.	yes i can for my head is made of iron my body is made of steel	1. my head it is of brass my body it is of steel 2. if your head is made of brass and your body s made of steel
56.	and no one can make me feel my shins is muttle bone	nobody can t make me feel nothing
57.	aw carnt they
58.	five pound for a doctor	two pounds for a doctor
59.	ten pound to stop away	ten pounds to stay away
60.	fifteen pound and he must come at once	he must come in a case like this
61.	in comes i the doctor
62.	what you a doctor	be you a doctor
63.	yes i ve travelled for it
64.	where ve you travelled
65.	i ve travelled all over the world
66.	i ve travelled england scotland france and spain
67.	three times round the world and back again to old england
68.	havnt you been nowhere else
69.	yes i once went three mile yon side york
70.	to an old lady called misses cork
71.	she fell upstairs with an empty teapot full of flour
72.	and grazed her shinbone just above her elbow
73.	and made her stocking bleed
74.	what pains can you cure	what ailments can you cure
75.	i can cure the hipsy pipsy palsy gout
76.	pain within and pain without
77.	draw tooth set a leg
78.	cure almost any pain in the head
79.	clever doctor try your skill
80.	thank you sir so i will
81.	is that the strongest part about a man	yes it lies in the strongest part of the body
82.	its the strongest part about a woman
83.	i ve a little bottle in my inside coat trousers waistcoat pocket
84.	he wants a little of my wiff waff
85.	just rubbin round is tiff taff
86.	this man is not dead hes only in a trance	she s not dead she s only in a trance
87.	come rise up old man and lets have a dance	jump up jane and we ll have a dance
88.	if you can t dance we can sing
89.	come rise up old man and lets begin
90.	good master and good mistress as you sit round your fire	1. good master and good mistress 2. good master and good mistress as you sit by your fire
91.	remember us poor ploughboys who plough through mud and mire	1. just think of us poor boys that plough through mud and mire 2. remember us poor plough boys that plough amongst the mire
92.	the mire it is so very deep the water runs so clear	the water is not clear
93.	give what you like to our money box and a mug of your best beer	we d thank you dear master for a pitcher of your best beer
94.	good master and good mistress you see our fool as gone
95.	we make it in our busness to follow him alone
96.	he swears if i don t marry him as you will understand	oh he did marry me as all do understand
97.	he ll list all for a soldier and go to some foreign land	and then he listed for a soldier in a far and distant land
98.	whoa whoa wopsy old boy which of you old boys can old my orse	hold my horse by the tail boy he s only a donkey
99.	es a donkey es a rum un to kick
100.	mind he doesnt bite you my lads

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Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914
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