Buttercup Joe

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Now I be a true-bred country chap / Me father come from Fareham / And me mother she’s got some more like I / And she well knows how to rear ’em. Some people calls I “Bacon-fat” And others “Turniphead / But I can prove I beyn’t no flat Although I’m country-bred. For I can drive a plough and milk a cow / For I can reap or mow / I’m as fresh as a daisy that grows in a field and they call I Buttercup Joe.

Now have you seen my young woman They calls her Our Mary / She works as busy as a bumble-bee Down in St John’s dairy / And don’t she make those dumpling nice / One day I’m gonna try ’em / And I’ll ask her if she’d like to wed / A country chap like I am. / Now some people they likes hay-makin’ / Some others they like mowin,’ / But the job of all that I like best’s a job called turnip hoein’ / And won’t I just, when I gets wed / To my own Mary Ann, / I’ll work for her and try me best / To please her all he can.

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