Little Sir Hugh / Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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w:It - rains - it rains - in mer-ry Lin-coln. It
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w:rains - both great - and small - When
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w:all - the boys - come out to play. To
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w:play - and toss - their ball -
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W:1
W:It rains it rains in merry Lincoln,
W:It rains both great and small.
W:When all the boys come out to play
W:To play and toss their ball.
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W:2
W:They toss'd their ball so high so high
W:They toss'd their ball so low
W:They toss'd it over the Jew's garden
W:With all the fine Jews below.
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W:3
W:The first that came out was the Jew's daughter
W:Was dressed all in green.
W:Come in, come in my little Sir Hugh
W:You shall have your ball again.
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W:4
W:Oh no oh no I dare not come
W:Without my playmates too
W:For if my Mother should be at the door
W:She would cause my poor heart to rue.
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W:5
W:The first she off'r him was a fig
W:The next a finer thing
W:The third a cherry as red as blood
W:And that enticed him in.
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W:6
W:She set him up in a gilty chair
W:She gave hime a sugar sweet
W:She laid him out on a dresser board
W:And stabb'd him like a sheep.
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W:7
W:And when the school was over
W:His Mother came out for to call
W:With a little rod under her apron
W:To beat her son withall.
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W:8
W:His Mother went to the Jew's wife's house
W:And knocked loud at the ring
W:O little Sir Hugh if you are here
W:Come let your Mother in.
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W:9
W:He is not here the Jew's wife said
W:He is not here today
W:He is with his school fellows on the green
W:Keeping this high holiday.
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W:10
W:My head is heavy I cannot get up
W:My grave it is so deep
W:Bsides a pen-knife sticks into my heart
W:So up I cannot get.
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W:11
W:Go home, go home my Mother dear
W:And prepare me a winding sheet
W:For tomorrow morning before it is day
W:Your body and mine shall meet.
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W:12
W:And lay my prayer book at my head
W:And my grammar at my feet
W:That all my school fellows as they pass by
W:May read them for my sake.

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Song Note

Song by Traditional
Country of origin: England

Folk song references:

Song to be found in the following collection(s):

One Hundred English Folk Songs