Navvy Boots



A digging and a-picking as I was one day

The thought of my true love it led me astray.

The day it was gone and the night coming on

And I hit for the road with my navvy boots on.



I knocked at my love's window, my knock she did know

And out of her slumber she wakened so slow.

I knocked there again, and she said " Is that John? "

" Yes indeed it's me with my navvy boots on. "



She opened the door and invited me in

" Draw up to the fire and warm your skin. "

The bedroom door was open and the blankets turned down

And I rolled into bed with my navvy boots on.



Then early the next morning at the dawn of the day,

Says I to my true love, " It's time to go away. "

" Sleep down, sleep down, you know you've done wrong

For to sleep here at night with your navvy boots on. "



O I bent down my head with a laugh and a smile

Saying "What could I do, love, in that length of time?

For all that I've done it was just a bit of fun

And I'll do it again with my navvy boots on."



The six months being over and seven after this

This pretty fair maid grew stout around the waist

Then eight months being over and nine comes along

And she handed me a son with his navvy boots on.



Come all you pretty fair maids take heed what I have said

Don't ever let a navvy come into your bed,

For their hearts do run light and their minds do run young

Sure they'll jump on your bones with their navvy boots on.



From The Seeds of Love, Sedley

@bawdy @love @seduction @bastard

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