Oh won't you come along me love along with me! Come for one and be my wife And come with me it is of the jolly butcher as you might plainly see As he out one morning in search of company He went a tavern and a fair girl he did see Ah come for one night, be my wife, oh along with me He for liquor of the best And he makes such fortune have a drink, it will make us think That it is our day Well he called for a candle to light way to bed And he had her in the room these words to her he said, "A sovereign I will give to you, for to your charms" And all night, that fair young maid, lied in the butchers' arms Oh, Early the next be sure it went his way He unto that fair young maid and unto her did say, "That sovereign I gave to you, do not think me strange, Well that sovereign that I to you will you give me back me change!" Well about a 12 months later he roved out once And he went into the tavern where often been before He wasn't in there long when his fair maid he did see And she brought a baby three months old and placed it on his knee he saw the baby, he began to curse and swear And he said unto that fair maid, "Why did you bring him here?!" "Well he is own, kind sir", she said, "Do not think me strange, Well sovereign that you gave to me, I gives you back your change!!" x 2