Henry's Songbook

Chorus:
Come and buy, come and buy, be you poor or gentry
Gather round the broadside man and lay your money down
We have ballads long and short and the best of every sort
For a single paltry penny all the news of London town

There are floods in Worcester town and the rain is tumbling down
A most amazing monster has been captured in the Dee ( a river)
Here's the bold and stirring tale of the hunting of the whale
And the story of a parson who was pressed away to sea

Here's the finest sheets of all fresh today from Stationer's Hall
A newly written ballad of Lord Nelson's victory
Here's the news from all the courts, all the cases and reports
And the rantings of a pirate who was hanged on tyburn tree

Here's the tale about a maid of a brisk and rambling trade
Betraying of a tinker who was taken by her charms
And the story of a wife, it's the truth upon my life
Who came upon her husband rolling in the milkmaid's arms

(as sung by The McCalmans)