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In Trouble
- IT’S all for nothing: I’ve lost im now.
- I suppose it ad to be:
- But oh I never thought it of im,
- Nor e never thought it of me.
- And all for a kiss on your evening out
- An a field where the grass was down . . .
- And e as gone to God‐knows‐where,
- And I may go on the town.
- The worst of all was the thing e said
- The night that e went away:
- He said e’d a married me right enough
- If I adn’t a been so gay.
- Me, gay! When I’d cried, and I’d asked him not,
- But e said e loved me so;
- An whatever e wanted seemed right to me . . .
- An how was a girl to know?
- Well, the river is deep, and drowned folk sleep sound,
- An it might be the best to do;
- But when he made me a light‐o‐love
- He made me a mother too.
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- I’ve ad enough sin to last my time,
- If twas sin as I got it by,
- But it aint no sin to stand by his kid
- An work for it till I die.
- But oh the long days and the death‐long nights
- When I feel it move and turn,
- And cry alone in my single bed
- And count what a girl can earn
- To buy the baby the bits of things
- He ought to a bought, by rights;
- And wonder whether e thinks of Us . . .
- And if e sleeps sound o’ nights.
