If you'd been there to see him, you would have thought it funny,
But he frightened the old woman, for he wanted all her money.
Says he, "Woman take warning, for now I tell you plain,
To-morrow night at twelve o'clock I'll visit you again,
One hundred bright sovereigns for me you must prepare,
Or else with me then you must go, to a place you may guess where."
Then up thro' the chimney he vanished from her sight,
And she went to the Wakefield bank as soon as it was light,
"You must pay me one hundred pounds," to the bankers she did say.