{"id":18001,"date":"2024-03-06T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=18001"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:56:35","slug":"lancashire-lass-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/lancashire-lass-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire Lass, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1865<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>George Leybourne \/ Jesse Williams<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RNV8322<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>George Leybourne<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>none<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Geo. Leybourne's New Song of the\nLANCASHIRE LASS.\n\nYou may talk of young girls, but none can surpass,\nMy dear little charmer that comes from Oldham,\nFresh and as sweet as the newly mown grass,\nIs my little Polly the Lancashire Lass;\nShe's eves so blue, and teeth so white,\nHer hair is brown, her step is light,\nHer ankle its a perfect mite,\nMy beautiful Lancashire Lass.\n\nMy Lancashire Lass, there's none can surpass,\nMy Lancashire Lass for style and beauty\nMy Lancashire Lass \u2014 come fill your glass,\nAnd drink to the health of my Lancashire Lass.<\/em>\n\nThe way that I won her is strange you will say,\n'Twas one afternoon that I went to Bellevue,\nA young friend of mine was there for the day,\nAnd took little Polly for whom he'd to pay;\nWhen first we met I soon could see,\nThat with his chance 'twas all U P,\nAnd so I asked her if she'd have me,\nThis beautiful Lancashire Lass.\n\nShe said she'd be mine, and she swore to be true,\nWe've since been like doves, billing and cooing!\nWe never fall out as some lovers do,\nAnd she has some money betwixt me and you;\nShe bought this watch which now I wear,\nIf she dout mind, well I don't care,\nShe says that her fortune I shall share,\nMy beautiful Lancashire Lass.\n\nShe's published the banns, we're going to be wed;\nI leave those matters for her to settle,\nTo-morrow, for time so quickly has fled,\nThe Lancashire Lass to the church will be led;\nI need not work while there's a purse,\nTo the idea I'm not averse,\nAnd perhaps one day I may have to nurse\nA sweet little Lancashire Lass.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A song from the halls which has not, as far as we know, passed into the repertoire of traditional singers, but is included here to distinguish it from other songs of a similar theme (eg She\u2019s a lassie from Lancashire<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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