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The Tinker 
The Tinker 
I am the bravest tinker that lives beneath the sun If you have any work to do, you shall have it well done Yes indeed you shall, don't you know you shall To my right falooral laddie, yes, indeed you shall 
The lady came to the door and asked me could I stop And could I mend a rusty pan that never held a drop Yes indeed I can, don't you know I can To my right falooral laddie, yes, indeed I can 
She took me up the stairs for to show me what to do She fell on the featherbed and I fell on it too Yes indeed I did, don't you know I did To my right falooral laddie, yes, indeed I did 
I put my hammer in her hand that with it she might knock To make her husband to believe that I was at my work Yes indeed I was, don't you know I was To my right falooral laddie, yes, indeed I was 
She put her hand into her purse and pulled out twenty pound Take this me jolly tinker and we'll have another round Yes indeed we will, don't you know we will To my right falooral laddie, yes, indeed we will 
Oh, I plugged her in the kitchen, I plugged her in the hall And the servants cried, The Devil, are you going to plug us all Oh indeed I'm not, don't you know I'm not To my right falooral laddie, no, indeed I'm not 
Well, I've been a jolly tinker these thirty years and more But such a rusty pan as that I never plugged before No indeed I didn't, don't you know I didn't To my right falooral laddie, no, indeed I didn't 
from Sedley, Seeds of Love. collated from 17th and 19th century sources SOF