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Billy Don’t You Weep for Me (Live)
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"Sally, where are you going That you do look so gay? I know that I've not asked you To take a walk today" "You have not asked me, well indeed It's a tidy cheek of you For you think that there are no more young chaps I've got a dozen or two Billy, don't you weep for me I'm going to St. James's Park My Cousin Joe to see" "Cousin Joe, now who is he? He's a soldier, I can tell For I know that you're fond of lobsters Both raw and boiled as well" "My Cousin Joe's a guardsman And he is a handsome chap And he wears such fine mustachios And a stunning furry cap" "Oh Billy, don't you weep for me I'm very fond of cousin Joe And I'll sit all on his knee" "We're going to the play tonight Jack Sheppard for to see And when that it is all over We'll all have a jolly good spree I've got money for a pint of stout And when we're short of tin I'll even go and pawn my smock To buy us a bottle of gin" "Billy, don't you weep for me I'm very fond of cousin Joe And I'll sit all on his knee" "So what is the use of him? He never can keep you You'll have to work from morn till night That's what you'll have to do You'll have to make shirts at a penny each Or else stand at the tub And mark my words, there's many a day You'll go very short of grub" "Sally, you'll cry for me Book it back to Cousin Joe And sit all on his knee!" In about a twelve month after Young Sally come back to me And she said that she was sorry She'd ever been on that spree Wanted me to take her back Says I, "It is no go For do you think that I'm such a fool? Go back to Cousin Joe" "Sally, you can't come over me For I see you got a baby To dance all on your knee" "Billy, how can you serve me so? You really drive me mad I'll have you up before the beak And I'll swear you are its dad When that you get before the bench They will not let you speak And you'll have to keep the young one On thirty pence a week" "So, Billy, how can you serve me so? I'm sure the child belongs to you Not to Cousin Joe" Well, in a week she gets the summons But she found it was no go The magistrate decided that The child belonged to Joe She went up to Billy's backyard Quickly the door she shut And when at last they found her She'd drowned in the water b*** So young women, take a warning from me Never love a soldier Or sit all on his knee
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