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" i Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid.' 'Nobody asked you, sir,' she said, ' Sir,' she said, etc.
'* 'Then I must leave you, my pretty maid.' 'The sooner the better, sir,' she said, 'Sir,' she said, etc."
But this is not the whole of the song. As usually recognized, there are three additional verses which come between the first and second as given above. They are:
" i May I go with you, my pretty maid?' ' Yes, if you please, kind sir,' she said.
" ' What is your father, my pretty maid?' ' My father's a farmer, sir,' she said.
" ' Shall I marry you, my pretty maid?' 'Yes, if you please, Mnd sir,' she said."
and then follow the second, third, and fourth verses of the lines already quoted.
This same version was published in the " Musical Treasury" by G. H. Davidson, Peter's Hill, Doctor's Commons, quite sixty years ago, together with " Billy Lackaday's Lament," from James Kenney's " Sweethearts and Wives"—a musical comedy produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1823. "Where are you going, my
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