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

You Sunderland lasses draw near,

Sure you are forsaken by men;

But the old women, they

Forget for to play,

But will get married at three score and ten.

You Sunderland lasses are slow,

And yet there’s good choice of young men;

The old women, they

Do shew you fair play,

They get married at threescore and ten.