| Lyrics: | The Long Peggin' Awl
As I was a-walking one morning in May
I met a pretty fair maid,
her gown it was gay.
I step-ped up to her, and back she did fall
She want to be played
with the long peggin' awl.
I said, "Pretty fair maid will you travel with me,
Unto
foreign countries, strange things for to see?
And I will protect you, what e'er may
befall
And follow your love wuth his long peggin' awl"
Then home to her parents she
then went straightway
And unto her mother these words she did say,
"I'll follow my true
love what e'er may befall
I'll follow my love with his long peggin' awl."
"O
daughter, O daughter, how can yopu say so?
For young men are false as you very well
know.
They'll tell you fine things and the devil and all
And leave you big-bellied with
the long peggin' awl."
"O mother, O mother, now do not say so.
Before you werte
sixteen, you very well know
There wqas father and mother and baby and all
You followed my
dad for his long peggin' awl."
From singing of Harry Cox, 1954
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