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!