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5 GOING TO WOOLWICH BY WATER.

FOME people all of Putney joys, And say curls pleasure never cloys; But there's nothing like the fun and noise, Of a voyage to Woolwich by water, I often to the Tower stairs, A long with all my friends, repairs, So nautical, our dress and airs, Oh, crikey, how the people staresǃ' But that we doesn't mind, you mind, Because as how we've m'd in row, And we chaws our hacker as we go, On our voyage to Woolwich by water.

Smoking, joking, all the day, Laughing, chaffing, all the way, Nothing, sure, is half as gay As a voyage to Woolwich by water.

Now up the river's very well, For those who like these How hell But, lor, then it half the swell,

As in going to Woolwich for water. One morning I, with cousin Fred, Who brought some girls-and Uncle Ned, With White, wot keeps the Sultan's head, The way down the river link; Woostow'd our bodies in the l t Then every man took off his coat, Anduncle Ned's it went aft at, On our voyage to Woolwich, by water.

Smoking, joking, &c.

Our vessel went to merry slow, I cried-for others passed us so- Let's shew those g how, we can row,

A going to Woolwich by water, Our skulls in the waves we lur'd, When White with wine and water star'd, S m e ght al-was ic floor'd, For the shock it t him overhoard. That rain came down with all its might; I'd how white ducks-it spoils 'em quite-