In the Strand

From The Strand Songster (undated)

 For the last three week’s I've been dodging, 
 A girl I know who has a lodging, 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 The first thing that put my heart in a flutter 
 Was a Balmoral boot as she crossed the gutter. 
  In Strand, in the Strand:
 
 I wish I was Nancy oh! Heigho,
 In a second floor for evermore 
 To live and die with Nancy. 
  
 A pork pie hat with a little feather, 
 A new knickerbocker for the dirty weather, 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 Some pretty petticoats too she’d got them,
 Trimm’d with embroidery round the bottom. 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
  
 One night as I was out for a run, 
 I saw my Nancy buying a bun . 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 I told my love and down did fall,
 Slap on my knees by Exeter Hall,
 In the Strand, in the Strand. 
  
 I popp’d the question neat and nobby, 
 When she said, “Get Up here comes a Bobby!"
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 But said she to me, “Don’t look so blue. 
 For I’ll marry you in a week or two, 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
  
 I never shall forget the day
 When to Church we led the way 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 The folks did laugh and some did sing, 
 I thought I’d done a tidy thing 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
  
 I married her off without any fuss
 Bought a cradle and got a nurse 
 In Strand, in the Strand;
 I never repent me going out west, 
 For all the wives you get the best 
 In Strand, in the Strand.