edward elgar - clapham town end lyrics
at clapham town end lived an old yorkshire tyke
who i dealing i horseflesh had ne’er met his like
’twas his pride that i aw the hard bargains he’d hit
he’d bit a good mony but but nivver been bit
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
this old tommy tavers (by that name he was known)
had an old carrion bit that was sheer skin and bone
to hgave k!lled him for the curs would have been quite as well
but ’twas tommy’s opinion he’d die off himsel’
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
well, one abie muggins, a neighbouring cheat
though to diddle old tommy would be a great treat;
he’d a horse, too, ’twas worse than old tommy’s, you see
for tonight he’d thought that he would proper to dee
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
thinks abie: “th’ old codger’ll never smoke the trick:
“i’ll swap with him my poor dead horse for his quick
“and if tommy, i’m n0bbered can happen to trap
“’twill be a fine feather in abraham’s cap.”
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
so to tommy he goes, and to tommy he pops:
“between my horse and thine prithee tommy would swaps
“what will give me to boot, for mine th’ better horse feel?”
“not,” says tommy, “i’ll swap even hands and ye will!”
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
abie preached a long time about something to boot
insisting that his was the liveliest brute
but tommy stuck fast where first had begun
till abie shook hands and said: “well, tommy, done.”
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
“oh, tommy,” says abie, “i sorry for thee
“i thought thou’d ‘a had a more white in thy ‘ee:
“good luck in thy bargain, for my horse is dead.”
“hey,” says tommy, “me lad, so is mine, and it’s flaid!”
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
so tommy got the better of the bargain of asked
and came off with a yorkshireman’s triumph at last
for though ‘twixt dead horses there’s not much to choose
yet tommy was richer by the hide and four shoes
wi’ me dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum dary
dum a dum day
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