YOUNG JIM HALL

“It’s called The Swan this ’ere un,” he said, and, with a preliminary flourish on the fiddle, he went off.

I should say that we got the words in his own writing afterwards spelt as I give them.

THE SWAN.

Now it Gentel men hall cum lisen to me,

And ile tell you of a spre,

When Sam and Tom Gose in there boats,

Tha never dise a Gre.

Chorus.

For the Halls they are upon the spre,