Steeleye Span - The Drunkard lyrics
[Steeleye Span - The Drunkard lyrics]
I will walk the streets up
I will walk the streets down
I will see the landlady dressed
In a silk gown with my elbows all out and
My breeches without knees
You are the biggest vagabond that
I ever did see
Where I go so raggedy and you go so fine
It's of the good money you have took of mine
Ale and tobacco for you I have paid
If I ain't you'd have gone
In your raggedy ways
If I had a-listened to my
Old woman at the first
I might have had silver and gold in my purse
To maintain my wife and my children so small
But 'tis I, silly drunkard
Have ruined them all
I will cock up my hat as I had on before
And I'll go home to me wife
And I'll love her no more
And the more I will beat her
The more she will cry
And the more silly drunkard
And blackguard am I
I will walk the streets down
I will see the landlady dressed
In a silk gown with my elbows all out and
My breeches without knees
You are the biggest vagabond that
I ever did see
Where I go so raggedy and you go so fine
It's of the good money you have took of mine
Ale and tobacco for you I have paid
If I ain't you'd have gone
In your raggedy ways
If I had a-listened to my
Old woman at the first
I might have had silver and gold in my purse
To maintain my wife and my children so small
But 'tis I, silly drunkard
Have ruined them all
I will cock up my hat as I had on before
And I'll go home to me wife
And I'll love her no more
And the more I will beat her
The more she will cry
And the more silly drunkard
And blackguard am I