Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

When I was young and lusty,

I could loup a dyke;

But now at five and sixty,

Cannot do the like.

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sair fail’d now,

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sin’ I kend thou.

Then said the awd man

To the oak tree;