Volume Ii Part 58 (1/2)

Three Sailors

[Music]

-London (A. B. Gomme).

I. Here come three sailors, three by three, To court your daughter, a fair lady (p.r.o.nounced ladee); [_Or_, And down by your door they bend their knee].

Can we have a lodging here, here, here?

Can we have a lodging here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake, Here are three sailors we can't take; You cannot have a lodging here, here, here, You cannot have a lodging here.

Here come three soldiers, three by three, To court your daughter, a fair lady; Can we have a lodging here, here, here?

Can we have a lodging here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake, Here are three soldiers we can't take; You cannot have a lodging here, here, here, You cannot have a lodging here.

Here come three kings, three by three, To court your daughter, a fair lady; Can we have a lodging here, here, here?

Can we have a lodging here?

Wake, wake, daughter, do not sleep, Here come three kings that we can take; You can have a lodging here, here, here, You can have a lodging here.

Here's my daughter, safe and sound, And in her pocket one hundred pound, And on her finger a gay gold ring, And she is fit to walk with a king.

Here's your daughter, not safe nor sound, Nor in her pocket one hundred pound, On her finger no gay gold ring, I'm sure she's not fit to walk with a king.

-Barnes, Surrey, and London (A. B. Gomme).

II. Here come three tinkers, three by three, To court your daughter, fair lady; Oh! have you any lodgings here, oh, here?

Oh! have you any lodgings here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake, Here come three tinkers we cannot take; We haven't any lodgings here, oh, here, We haven't any lodgings here.

Here come three soldiers, three by three, To court your daughter, fair lady; Oh! have you any lodgings here, oh, here?

Oh! have you any lodgings here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake, Here come three soldiers we cannot take; We haven't any lodgings here, oh, here, We haven't any lodgings here.

Here come three kings, three by three, To court your daughter, fair lady; Oh! have you any lodgings here, oh, here?

Oh! have you any lodgings here?

Wake, wake, daughter, do not sleep, Here come three kings that we can take; We have some lodgings here, oh, here, We have some lodgings here.

Here's my daughter, safe and sound, And in her pocket five hundred pounds, And on her finger a five guinea gold ring, And she is fit to walk with a king.

Here's your daughter, nor safe nor sound, And in her pocket no five hundred pound, And on her finger no five guinea gold ring, And she's not fit to walk with the king.

-Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).

III. Here's three sweeps, three by three, And down by the door they bend their knee; Oh! shall we have lodgings here, oh, here?