Song Name: | Pretty Polly Perkins | By: | Harry Clifton |
Posted By: | yukon | Difficulty: | Beginner |
Key: | A | Genre: | Irish |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2014-04-29 03:59:05 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | 3 3 -2� 2 3 4 -4 4 2
I am a broken hearted milkman 3 -2� 2 -1 1 In grief I�m arrayed 4 -4 3 5 5 -4 3 Through keeping of the company -3 -3 4 -3 -3� 3 Of a young servant maid -2-2� 23 4 -4 4 4 3 Who lived on board and wages 3 -3� -4 -4 3 The house to keep clean 4 -4 5-4 -55 -44 -4 -3� In a gen-tle-man�s family 4 3 -3� -3 4 Near Pattington Green Chorus: 3 3 -2� 2 2 4 4 -4 4 4 3 She was as beautiful as a butterfly 3 -3 -4 -4 3 And proud as a queen 4-4 5 -4 -5 5 -4 4 -4 -3� Was pretty lit-tle Pol-ly Perkins 4 3 -3� -3 4 Of Pattington Green Verse 2: She�d an ankle like an antelope And a step like a deer A voice like a black bird So mellow and clear Her hair hung in ringlets So beautiful and long I thought that she loved me But I found I was wrong (Chorus) Verse 3: When I�d rattle in the morning And cry milk below At the sound of my milk cans Her face she did show With a smile on her countenance And a laugh in her eye If I�d thought that she loved me I�d have laid down to die (Chorus) Verse 4: When I asked her to marry me She said �Oh what stuff� And told me to drop it For she�d had quite enough Of my nonsense at the time I�d been very kind But marry a milkman She didn�t feel inclined (Chorus) Verse 5: The man that has me must Have silver and gold A chariot to ride in And be handsome and bold His hair must be curly As any watch spring And whiskers as big as A brush for clothing (Chorus) Verse 6: The words that she uttered went Straight through my heart I sobbed and I sighed And I straight did depart With a tear on my eyelid As big as a bean I bid farewell to Polly And to Paddington Green (Chorus) Verse 7: In six months she married This hard hearted girl But it was not a Wi-count, And it was not a Nearl It was not a Boronite, But a shade or two wuss It was a bow legged conductor Of a tuppenny bus. (Chorus) |