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Here’s my sister Betsy, muc}a younger than 1 am,
liad nine or ten offers, and yet she denied them;
Before sbe vas tventy sbe’d a son and & daugbter,
Here am 1, six—and—tbirty, and had not one offer.
A linman, a tinman, a tinker, a tailor,
A feller, a peller, a ploughboy, a sailor;
Gentle or simple, ci’ £oolisb ox’ witty—
Me die an oíd maid! Pray, take me Lor pity.
1111 make a geod vife, 1 von’t scold flor be jealous,
I’ll give hiM sorne ¡noney te spend at tbe ale}xouse,
While 1 stay at borne, bot}i busy and saving; -
So judge me, my friend, if ¡‘ni not worth your baving.
FSUT, pág. 297, fragmento de j!eres Ny Sister Betsy’. SO!, vol.
11, núm. 1 (Feb.—Mar, 1961) pág. 38, la titula ‘Oid Maid’s Song’:
Come a landsman a pinsman a tinker or a tailor,
Fiddler ox’ a dancer a ploughboy or a sailor,
Gentíeman a peor man a 001 Oi’ a witty.
Don’t you let me die an oid maid,
Bat take me out of pity.
Oh, 1 liad a sister Sally, vas younger than 1 am,
Llie liad so many sweethearts, ahe liad to deny them;
AS Lor my own part 1 never liad man>’,
IB you alí ¡’ heart, I’d be thankful for an>’.