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  Oyster Girl

   

  As I was going theough one of the London streets

  A pretty little oyster girl I chanced there for to meet

  And across to her basket so nimbly I did trip

  O have you got any oysters?

   

  O yes sir, O yes sir, O yes sir said she

  I've some of the finest oysters that ever you did see

  And I sell them by one, or by two, and by three

  And then oh will you bargain for my basket of oysters

   

  So I went unto the landlord, oh landlord says I

  O have you got a spare room for the oyster girl and I.?

  That we may go in and so merry merry be

  To bargain for her basket of oysters

   

  Oh yes sir, oh yes sir, oh yes sir says he

  I have got a spare room for the oyster girl & thee

  That you may go in and so merry merry be

  To bargain for her basket of oysters.

   

  So I had not been in the room scarcely but an half an hour

  Before she picked my pocket of fifty pounds and more

  And out of the doorway so nimbly she did trip

  And she leaved me with her basket of oysters
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  Oyster Girl (continued)

   

  So I went unto the landlord, O Landlord says I

  Oh have you seen that oyster girl that comes along with I?

  She has picked my pocket of all my money

  And she've leaved me with her basket of oysters.

   

  Oh yes sir, oh yes sir, O yes sir, says he

  I have seen that oyster girl that comes along with thee.

  She has paid me your reckoning, and you may go free

  And return [unto] your basket of oysters.

   

  I've travelled through England, through Scotland and France

  But never in all my life was I led to such a trance

  So now the English girl took the Frenchman in at last

  And she leaved him with her basket of oysters.

   

  Alfred Willey at Hambridge

  Jan 6th 1904

  (67)

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