‘’Twas on Christmas Day,’ found on a slip, “Sold at No 42 Long Lane,” in a volume in the British Museum, 1876. e (not paged, but at what would be p. 57), and again in The New Covent Garden Concert, London, Printed and sold by J. Evans, No 41 Long-Lane, West Smithfield, Br. Mus. 1077. g. 47 (4), dated in the catalogue “1805?”
’Twas on Christmas Day
Father he did wed;
Three months after that
My mother was brought to bed.
My father he came home,
His head with liquor stord,
And found in mother’s room
A silver-hilted sword.
Fiddle de dum de de, etc.