Song No. 83- (Lon/Dub) Frisky Songster c.1770
[From: The Frisky Songster. (London, or Dublin, ca. 1770.) from 1802 edition. Reprint copies: (c. 1776) Bodleian, Harding Collection; (1802), Kinsey-ISR Library. Essential erotic folksong collection in English of the late 18th century. With minor changes from "Merry Muses of Caledonia," Burns, 1827.
This is the bawdy antecedent of "Spanish Lady" which has the first two stanzas in common.
R. Matteson 2017]
SONG LXXXIII. [edited, for punctuation and minor spelling errors]
"AS I went through London city,
Twas at twelve o'clock at night,
There I saw a damsel pretty,
Washing her joke by candle-light.
"When she wash'd it then she dr'd it,
The hair was black as coal upon it
In all my life I never saw,
A girl that had so fine a c—t.
"My dear said I what shall I give thee,
For a touch at you know what,"
Half a crown if you are willing,
Two shillings or you shall not.
"Eighteen pence my dear I'll give you,"
"Twenty pence or not at all;"
With all my heart it is a bargain,
So up she mounts [in] the Cobbler's stall.
"My dear," said I, "how shall I ride you,
The gallop, amble, or the trot?"
"The amble is the easiest pace sir,"
"With all my heart," so up I got.
The Cobbler hearing of our parley,
Through a hole he thrust his awl;
He prick'd the girl into the a--e,
Which threw the rider from the stall.