Victorian Street Ballads: A Selection of Popular Ballads Sold in the Street in the Nineteenth CenturyWilliam Henderson (Writer on ballads) |
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Page 48
... that from the virtue of a woman she had fell down , And when a woman like her from her husband goes astray , It plainly shows she wishes that he was out of the way . Then came the fatal letter that fairly cooked her goose 48.
... that from the virtue of a woman she had fell down , And when a woman like her from her husband goes astray , It plainly shows she wishes that he was out of the way . Then came the fatal letter that fairly cooked her goose 48.
Page 104
... husband I would help into bed , Wash his shirt well and mend up his breeches , His breakfast up to his bedside Every morning I speedily would carry , And I'd help for to dress him besides , Oh ! dear how I long to get married . I am ...
... husband I would help into bed , Wash his shirt well and mend up his breeches , His breakfast up to his bedside Every morning I speedily would carry , And I'd help for to dress him besides , Oh ! dear how I long to get married . I am ...
Page 157
... husband can't leave me in the lurch , I am made fast in the Catholic Church , Good luck to Cardinal Wiseman , all people say , For when married by him it stands good , they say , The royal pair I've knocked off their perch , I was ...
... husband can't leave me in the lurch , I am made fast in the Catholic Church , Good luck to Cardinal Wiseman , all people say , For when married by him it stands good , they say , The royal pair I've knocked off their perch , I was ...
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