Or 'tec out the sins of town,"
But all he could do, was give her a grin,
From the spirit that held him down!
He'd have given the world, to get up out of that,
But a tantalising sprite,
Had taken possession of him, you see,
In the early part of the night.
The fact of it is, that he couldn't get up,
If she gave him a kingly crown,
And all he could do, was give her a grin,