DAME DURDEN



Dame Durden kept five servant maids

To carry the milking pail;

She also kept five labouring men

To use the spade and flail.



'Twas Moll and Bet, and Doll and Kit,

And Dolly to drag her tail;

It was Tom and Dick, and Joe and Jack,

And Humphrey with his flail.

And Joe kissed Dolly, and Jack kissed Kitty,

And Humphrey with his flail;

And Kitty she was the charming girl

To carry her milking pail.



Dame Durden in the morning so soon

She did begin to call;

To rouse her servants, maids and men,

She did begin to bawl.



'Twas on the morn of Valentine

When birds began to tweet,

Dame Durden and her maids and men

They all together meet.



sung by the Copper Family

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