In all the wide world over.

He sez, “Ez I wuz goin’ by,

I seed yer hair so shiny,

Yer eyes ez blue ez summer sky,

Yer cheeks ez red’s a piny;

“My heart my throat come thrummin’ in,

The dusk it struck my fancy;

I couldn’t help a-comin’ in

An’ speakin’ to ye, Nancy.”

An’ then ’e sez—’e sez—O me!