Aforementioned duplicate are reprinted inside Holloway and Black’s, Afterwards English Broadside Ballads , p

Its Scots tune appears to be first found in book step three regarding Walsh’s Caledonian Nation Dances , c 1740, since the “The main of your own Basements

Already been all you roving knives, that ramble from the Urban area, Kissing pretty Maids, listen to my personal ditty, Aside big date is on its way toward, once we could be merry, Cat, Poll, and you can Nan, will provide us Sack and you may Sherry. Hey having Bobbin Joan, Hey to have Stoney Batter, Keep the Partner at your home if not I am on their own. There is certainly Bridget, Peg, and you can Nell, that have Nancy, Doll, & Susan, So you can excite its sweethearts really, possibly is certainly going an excellent boozing, However when their cash is finished, they're going to search for a good Cully, And you can provide its splinters home, on the dear Bully. Hi having Bobbin Joan, Hey getting Stony Batter, an such like. In summer Lasses go, to the Fields a beneficial Maying, Thro' the newest Meadows gay, employing Sweethearts to tackle, The cheerful effective means, shewe having video game the happy, Tho' Jenny cries nay, I will not F--k to have a shilling. Hey to have Bobbin Joan, Hi having Stony Batter, etcetera. Go you educated Knave, no further of coax nor wheedle, Because of the those people Buttons in my own Sleve, I shall prick your with my needle, What's going to you will still be bold, Mammy label to that People, To possess guilt my personal give dont keep, I vow my inhale is just went. Hello having Bobbin Joan, Hello for Stony Batter, an such like. There was Joan a busty Lass, met with lusty Johnny, It went to capture a windows, he call'd their unique dear and you can honey, She said you stupid Clown, capture me around the middle, Play me Bobbin Joan, otherwise I'll crack your mess. Hey to own Bobbin Joan, Hey having Stony Batter, etcetera. The guy gently placed their own off, and then he pull'd out his scraper, He play'd their such as for example a tune, and therefore made their unique fart and caper; She told you my personal dearest John, the such as for example a great Jolly rover, My personal cloak and you can clothes I am going to pawn, that you ought to n'er promote more than. Hi to possess Bobbin Joan, Hey to have Stony Batter, etce let us capture good roam, around Stony Batter, Keep Spouse home, to own humpers could be at their unique, Hi to own desserts and you will draught beer, Hey to own quite misses, That can never ever falter, getting so you're able to crown our very own desires. Hey getting Bobbin Joan, Hey getting Stony Batter, Keep the Wife at home normally I'll prevent their particular h2o, Can be your oranges ripe, will they be complement plucking, Is your maid contained in this, able with the F--king.

Which spirited Irish ditty, set in the new Stony Batter one-fourth out-of Dublin, is within the Roxburghe collection from the British Collection, together with Madden range within Cambridge. 223, 1975. New go out is quite uncertain, the new Roxburghe range copy is probably slightly earlier than 1775.

The new tune was applied getting “Robin shure into the hairst” [and therefore to start with had it own song, that can nevertheless be discovered] regarding Scot Sounds Art gallery , #543, and “Chat ye o’er frae France

The newest song is not entitled, it is naturally one printed in Irish and you may Scots musical series because “Bob and you will Joan,” “Bobin jeevansathi Dating John,” etcetera. You’ll find about seven English music on tune, among that’s a good parody of unique. Only 1 of your own English audio requires the tune since the “Stony Batter,” the remainder, “Bob and you will Joan” or certain version on it. ” It is very among the many musical in the an excellent Scottish dance tune MS out-of 1740, published by David More youthful, and now on Bodleian Library, Oxford. ” The fresh new track try “Secret out of ye Provider” within the United kingdom Lib. MS Addl. 23971 and you can “The latest Celler home secret” on Vickers MS, c 1772 (#377 regarding the Higher Northern Song Book , 1987).