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,