The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

—Redhill, Surrey.

I.

Follow my gable ’oary man,
Follow my gable ’oary man,
I’ll do all that ever I can
To follow my gable ’oary man.

We’ll borrow a horse and steal a gig,
And round the world we’ll have a jig,
And I’ll do all that ever I can
To follow my gable ’oary man.

—Earls Heaton, Yorks (Herbert Hardy).

II.

Holy Gabriel, holy man,
Rantum roarum reeden man,
I’ll do all as ever I can
To follow my Gabriel, holy man.[3]

—Redhill, Surrey (Miss G. Hope).

III.