There’s a pretty bobbin winder, they call her Mary Jane,

She’s courting a snob! so help my bob, that lives in —— lane;

Last Sunday afternoon, she thought to cut it fine,

With the hoop of her mother’s washing tub, she made a crinoline.

I knew a steam loom weaver so cunning and so sly,

She had got a hump upon her back, and she squints with one eye,

She works at —— factory, her name is Anne O’Brian,

Her smock’s as black as a chimney back and wears a crinoline.

There’s a woman lives up —— road, they call her mother ——,

She wants to buy a crinoline, to wear underneath her gown?