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Poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell
The Recruit's Ball
Fiddler loquitur Heigho, fiddlestick, fiddlestick, fiddlestick, Heigho, fiddlestick, fiddle for a king! Heigh, pretty Kitty! heigh, jolly Polly! Up with the heels, girls! fling, lasses, fling! Heigh there! stay there! that's not the way there! Oh Johnny, Johnny, Oh Johnny, Johnny, Ho, ho, everybody all round the ring! Heigho, fiddlestick, fiddlestick, fiddlestick, Heigho, fiddlestick, fiddle for a king! Heigh, pretty Kitty! heigh, jolly Polly! Up with the heels, girls! swing, girls, swing! Foot, boys! foot, boys! to 't, boys! do 't, boys! Ho, Bill! ho, Jill! ho, Will! ho, Phil! Ho, Johnny, Johnny, Ho, Johnny, Johnny, Ho, ho, everybody, all round the ring! Deuce take the fiddle, Deuce take the fiddle, Deuce take the jolly fiddle, deuce take the fiddler! Here goes the fiddle, Here goes the fiddle, Here goes the jolly fiddle, here goes the fiddler! Ned, boy! your head, boy! She'll strike you dead, boy! There she goes at your nose! Deuce strike you dead, boy! Call, boys! bawl, boys! Deuce take us all, boys! Here we go, yes or no, Deuce take us all, boys! Deuce take the wall, boys, Deuce take the floor, boys, Deuce take the jolly floor, Deuce take us all, boys! There goes the wall, boys! There goes the door, boys! Round they swing in a ring! There goes the floor, boys! Lad, wench, roof, floor, Wench, lad, wall, door! Curse the ground, spin it round! Deuce take us all, boys!
Sydney Thompson Dobell
Sydney Thompson Dobell's other poems:
- To James Y. Simpson
- The Market-Wife's Song
- Liberty to M. Le Diplomate
- Lady Constance
- On Receiving a Book from Dante Rossetti
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