| Lyrics: | Buying a Bride
"Come all you kind husbands who have scolding wives,
Who through
living together are tired of your lives,
If you cannot persuade her nor good natured make
her
Place a rope round her neck and to market pray take her.
"Should anyone bid when
she's offered for sale,
Let her go for a trifle lest she should get stale,
If sixpence be
offered and that's all can be had,
Let her go for the same and not keep a lot
bad."
"Now come, jolly neighbours, let's dance, sing and play,
And away to the
neighbouring wedding, away.
All the world is assembled, the young and the old,
To see the
fair beauty that is to be sold.
"So sweet and engaging the lady did seem,
The market
with bidders did presently teem,
A tailor sung out that his goose he would sell,
To buy
the fair lady - he loved her so well.
"But a gallant young publican fifteen pounds did
pay
And with the young lady he marched away.
Then they drank and caroused and rejoiced all
day,
The glass passed around and the piper did play.
"Success to this couple and, to
keep up the fun,
May the bumpers fly round at the birth of a son.
Long life to them both
in peace and content,
May their days and their nights forever be
spent."
@marriage
printed in novel "Darkness of Corn" by Caroline
Stickland
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