My Girl with the Calico Dress.
A fig for your upper-ten girls,
With their velvets, and satins, and laces,
Their diamonds, and rubies, and pearls,
And their milliner figures and faces!
They may shine at a party or ball,
Emblazon’d with half they possess,
But give me in place of them all,
My girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as a partridge, and fair