BROOKLAND ROAD I was very well pleased with what I knowed, Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road, Low down-low down! Where the liddle green lanterns shine— O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one, And she can never be mine! 'Twas right in the middest of a hot June night, With thunder duntin' round, And I see'd her face by the fairy light She only smiled and she never spoke, But when she'd gone my heart was broke, Oh! Stop your ringing and let me be- You'll ring Old Goodman' out of the sea, Old Goodman's farm is rank sea sand, Oh! Fairfield church is water-bound Oh! leave me walk on the Brookland Road, Low down-low down! Where the liddle green lanterns shineO maids, I've done with 'ee all but one, And she can never be mine! 1 Earl Godwin of the Goodwin Sands? |