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HEN I wur in Cumberland I went a wooing,

Bad luck to my sorrow for it nigh prov'd my ruin.

I wur dying by inches,and looked so shocking,

’Twere all for the love of one Margery Topping

Fal lal, &c

With thoughts of this maiden so handsome and proper,

I fasted all day and night took no supper,

My mammy said Peter do make yourself easy,

But that was not Margery good lack-a-daizy,

Fa lal, &c,

I put on my best cloaths, as I’ve heard people say,

When you want a fair maiden is to look spruce and gay,

And I powder’d my hair with an old drudging box

And I got a pig's tail, only see how it cocks.

Fal lal, &c.