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