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The Butcher Boy

from Ye Mariners All by Lehto and Wright

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It's of a brisk young butcher as I have heard them say.
He started out of London town upon a certain day.
Says he, "A frolic I will have, my fortunes for to try.
I will go into Leicestershire some cattle for to buy,

When he arrived at Leicester town he came into an inn
He called for an ostler and boldly walked in.
He called for liquors of the best, he played the roving blade
And quickly fixed his eye upon a lovely chambermaid.

Then she took a candle to light him up to bed
When he came into the room, these words to her he said:
"One sovereign I will give to you all to enjoy your charms."
and this fair maid all night did sleep all in the butcher's arms.

It was early the next morning he prepared to go away.
The landlord said "Your reckoning, sir, you did forget to pay."
"Oh,", the butcher did reply "please do not think it strange.
One sovereign I gave your maid, and I haven't got the change.”

Thye straightway called the chambermaid and charged her with the same.
The golden sovereign she laid down, for fear she'd get the blame;
Was then the butcher he went home, well pleased with what had passed
And soon this pretty chambermaid grew thick about the waist.

'Twas nearly twelvemonth later he came to town again
And as he had done before he stopped at that same inn.
'Twas then the pretty chambermaid she chanced him for to see;
She brought a babe, just three months old, and placed it on his knee

The butcher sat like one amazed and at the child did stare
And when the joke he did find out, how he did stamp and swear.
"Oh, kind sir, it is your own, so do not think it strange
One sovereign you gave to me and here I brought the change."

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from Ye Mariners All, released March 1, 2000

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