Sing a hey-down and a ho-down
And they began for seven years’ wark,
With a hey-down and a ho-down
All for to make their dear loves a sark.
With a hey down and a ho-down
O three long years were passd and gone,
And they had not finishd a sleeve but one.
‘O we’ll to the woods, and we’ll pull a rose,’
And up they sprang all at this propose.
(W. Macmath.)