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First Published<\/td>1822<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Thomas Hudson \/ unknown<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN7515<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Thomas Hudson, Robert Glindon<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Kramer, Eleanor McKay; USA : W. Virginia; no date<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From Thomas Hudson's 4th Collection of Comic Songs (1822)<\/strong>\nTune - White Cockade\n\nIn Grays Inn Lane, not long ago\nAn old maid liv'd a life of woe;\nShe was fifty-three, and her face like tan,\nWhen she fell in love with a dogs' meat man;\nMuch she lov'd this dogs' meat man;\nHe was a good-looking dogs' meat man;\nHer roses and lilies had turned to tan\nWhen she fell in love with a dogs' meat man.\n \nEvery morning he went by.\nWhether the weather was wet or dry.\nAnd right opposite to her door did stan'\nAnd cry \"dogs' meat !\" this dogs' meat man-\nThen her cat would run out to the dogs' meat man,\nAnd rub against the barrow of the dogs' meat man.\nAs right opposite to her door did stan'\nAnd cry \"dogs' meat !\"this dogs' meat man.\n\nOne morn she kept him at the door,\nTalking half an hour or more;\nFor you must know that was her plan.\nTo have a good look at the dogs' meat man,\n\"Times are hard,\" says the dogs' meat man;\n\"Folks get in my debt,!' says the dogs' meat man;\nThen he took up his barrow and away he ran. \nAnd cried \"dogs' meat!\" this dogs' meat man.\n\nHe soon saw which way the cat did jump,\nAnd his company he offered plump;\nShe couldn't blush, 'cause she'd got no fan.\nSo she sot and grinn'd at the dogs' meat man.\n\"If you'll marry me,\" says the dogs' meat man,\n\"I'll marry you,\" says the dogs' meat man\nFor a quartern of peppermint then he ran. \nAnd she drink-d a \"good health\" to the dogs' meat man \n\nThat very evening he was seen \nIn jacket and breeches of velveteen; \nTo Bagnigge Wells then in a bran  ___\nNew gown she went went with the dogs' meat man\nShe'd biscakes and ale with the dogs' meat man\nAnd she \"walked arm in arm\" with the dogs' meat man;\nAnd the people all said vot round did stan' \nHe was quite a dandy dogs' meat man. \n\nHe said his customers, a good lod!\nThey ow'd him a matter of two pound odd;\nAnd she replied it was quite scan- \n-dalous to cheat such a dogs' meat man.\n\"If I had but the money,\" says the dogs' meat man\n\"I'd open a tripe shop,\" says the dogs' meat man,\n\"And I'd marry you to-morrow.\" \u2014 She admir'd the plan,\nAnd \u2014 she lent a five pound note to the dogs' meat man.\n\nHe pocketed the meney and went away,\nShe waited for him all next day;\nBut he never com'd, and she then began\nTo think that she was diddl'd by the dogs' meat man\nShe went out to seek for the dogs' meat man\nBut she couldn't find the dogs' meat man\nSome friend gave her to understan'\nHe'd got a wife and seven children, this dogs' meat man\n\nSo home she went in grief and tears,\nAll her hopes transformed to fears,\nAnd her hungry cat to miew began.\nAs much as to say \"Where's the dogs' meat man?\"\nShe couldn't help thinking of the dogs' meat man,\nThe handsome swindling dogs' meat man;\nSo you see just in one day's short span,\nShe lost her heart\u2014 a five pound note \u2014 and the dogs' meat man<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The dogs’ meat man <\/em>was written and performed in the 1820s and 30s by Thomas Hudson (1791- 1844)<\/a> a comic active in the singing taverns and supper rooms that influenced the early Music Hall in London. Like many of Hudson\u2019s songs this one survived in multiple 19th century broadsheets and songbooks. It was also a popular song in the repertoire of Robert Glindon<\/a> in the 1840s. Later in the 19th century it was sung by Tony Pastor, famous American early vaudevillian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At some point it was collected from the singing of Eleanor McKay Kramer in West Virginia and to that extent it has entered traditional song..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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