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BILLY BARLOW 2 Now ladies and gentlemen how do you do I come out before you with one boot and one shoe I don't how 'tis, but some how 'tis so Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow O dear, raggedy o, Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow Do show me a boarding house where I can stay I'm so hungry and sleepy, I eat nothing today They'll not let me in, at Astor's I know But a market stall's vacant for Billy Barlow O dear, raggedy o, There's a market stall vacant for Billy Barlow As I went down the street, the other fine day I met two fair ladies just coming this way says one "-now that chap, he isn't so slow" "I guess not" says the other, "that's Mr. Barlow" O dear, raggedy o, "I guess not" says the other, "that's Mr. Barlow" I'm told there's a show coming into the town Red lions and monkeys and porcupines brown But if they should show, I shall beat them I know For they've never a varmint like Billy Barlow.... I went to the races on Long Island so gay, The man at the gate he ask'd to pay; What pay, says I, and I looked at him so, Pass on Sir, I know you, you're Mr. Barlow. I had been on the track, but a minute or two, Before the people flocked round me, what I tell you is true; Whose that little fat Gentleman, does any one know, Yes says a young lady, that's Mr. Billy Barlow. There's a nigger been here, who they say was Jim Crow, But he cleared out the moment I came, you must know; If you doubt what I say, I can prove it is so, Just look at the rigging of Billy Barlow. Oh dear but I'm tired of this kind of life I wish in my soul I could find a good wife; If there's any young lady here, in want of a beau Let her fly to the arms of sweet Billy Barlow.... No ladies and gemmen, I bid you good-bye I'll buy a new suit when clothes ain't so high my hat's shocking bad, as all of you know but looks well on the head of Billy Barlow... (Pub:1836, Geo. Endicott, NY) A shorter version of this song appears in "Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society" (Belden) @American @humor filename[ BLLYBRL2 JRO Feb07  8note Sheet |
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