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(_To an old air_)
"O I won't lead a homely life / As father's Jack and mother's Jill, / But I will be a fiddler's wife, / With music mine at will! / Just a little tune, / Another one soon, / As I merrily fling my fill!"
And she became a fiddler's Dear, / And merry all day she strove to be; / And he played and played afar and near, / But never at home played he / Any little tune / Or late or soon; / And sunk and sad was she!