EBBA 31058

British Library - Roxburghe

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THE
Farmer's Lamentation
For the LOSS of
COLLY his COW.
A new Song

A Story, a story I'll tell you just now,

It is of the killing poor Colly my

Cow.

CHORUS.

Ah! my poor Colly, poor Colly my Cow

Poor Colly is dead, and can give no

milk now.

There's little Tommy Durken, pray what

do you mean,

For killing poor Colly when she was so

lean.

Then in comes the tripe man so trim

and so neat,

He bid me three halfpence for belly and

feet.

Then in came the tanner with sword by

his side,

He gives me three and sixpence for poor

Colly's hide.

Then in came the horner, who roguery

scorns,

And gives me three farthings for poor

Colly's horns.

The skin of my Colly was softer than

silk,

And three times a day did poor Colly give

Milk.

There's an end to poor Colly now she's

dead and gone,

For the loss of my Colly now I'm left

forlorn.

Ah, my poor Colly, etc.