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T:Pretty Peg
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song
D:Bothy Band
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W:When pretty Peg went down the street some fresh fish for to buy
W:But the wee town clerk followed after her, and he kissed her by and by
W:
W:Chorus:
W:With my tiddy right fol da diddle dido
W:With my tiddy right fol da diddle day
W:
W:"Oh, how can I get to your chamber, love, or how can I get to your bed?
W:When your daddy goes to bed at night with the key lying under his head"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"Oh, go and get a ladder, love, with thirty steps and three
W:And put it to the chimney top and come down in a creel to me"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"I went and got a ladder, love, with thirty steps and three
W:And a creel, on the top of that and come down in the lum to thee"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:No peace nor ease could the old wife get, with dreams running through her head
W:"I'll lay me life", said the gay old wife, "there's a boy in me daughter's bed"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:Then up the stairs the old man crept and into the room did steal
W:Silence reigned for the daughter slept and he never twigged the creel
W:
W:"My curse attend you, Father, what brought you up so soon?
W:To put me through my evening prayers, and I just lying down"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:He went back to his gay old wife, he went back to she
W:"She has the prayer book in her hand and she's praying for you and me"
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:No peace nor ease could the old wife get till she would rise and see
W:She came on a stumbling-block and into the creel went she.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"Hi I rocked her, ho, I rocked here, didn't I rock her well
W:For if any old wife begrudge me her daughter I'd rock her into Hell"
W:
W:Chorus