Up the kitchen and down the hall,
Choose the fairest of them all;
Seven years now and seven years then,
Kiss poor Sally and part again.
[2] Matron is not a word in common use among Lancashire people.
[3] d not sounded.
[4] Another version has “pree,” which means in Scotch, taste, hence kiss.
[5] At Earls Heaton two verses or lines are added, viz.:—
“If she is not here to take her part,
Choose another with all your heart.”
Pretty Miss Pink
Pretty Miss Pink, will you come out,
Will you come out, will you come out?
Pretty Miss Pink, will you come out,
To see the ladies dancing?