Over the hill and over the dale

Over the hill and over the dale, And over the bourn to Dawlish-- Where gingerbread wives have a scanty sale And gingerbread nuts are smallish.

Rantipole Betty she ran down a hill And kicked up her petticoats fairly; Says I I'll be Jack if you will be Gill-- So she sat on the grass debonairly.

Here's somebody coming, here's somebody coming! Says I 'tis the wind at a parley; So without any fuss any hawing and humming She lay on the grass debonairly.

Here's somebody here and here's somebody there! Says I hold your tongue you young Gipsey; So she held her tongue and lay plump and fair And dead as a Venus tipsy.

O who wouldn't hie to a Dawlish fair, O who wouldn't stop in a Meadow, O who would not rumple the daisies there And make the wild fern for a bed do!