EBBA 31345 - UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive

EBBA 31345

British Library - Roxburghe

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THE
Good FELLOW.
A new Song

SIX long years have I servd of my time,

And no one will set me free,

And so I will be a raking young blade,

And care for no body.

So I will rant and roar and call for more,

Let them say what they will;

For I am resolvd as long as I live

To be a Good Fellow still.

I have a good old father at home,

And I have cost him many a pound,

And now to make him amends for all,

I will travel the country all round;

I will tell them how I have spent my,

And in roving I have had my fill,

So I am resolved as long as I live

To be a Good Fellow still.

I have a good old Mother at home,

And I have cost her many a tear,

And now to make her amends for all,

I will travel both far and near.

I will tell them how I have spent my time,

And in roving I have had my fill,

So I am resolved as long as I live

To be a Good Fellow still.

My true love sent me a broad piece of gold,

I viewd it wondrous well;

But that will neither purchase houses nor land,

Nor keep me from heaven or hell.

But that will purchase a good brown bowl,

As the girls may drink their fill;

So I am resolved as long as I live,

To be a Good Fellow still.