The Drunkard Songtext

von Steeleye Span

I will walk the streets up, I will walk the streets down,
I will see the landlady dressed in a silk gown.
With my elbows all out and my breeches without knees,
You are the biggest vagabond that I ever did see.

Where I go so raggedy and you go so fine,
It's of the good money you have took of mine.
Ale and tobacco for you I have paid,
If I ain't you'd have gone in your raggedy ways.

If I had a-listened to my old woman at the first,
I might have had silver and gold in my purse.
To maintain my wife and my children so small,
But 'tis i, silly drunkard, have ruined them all.

I will cock up my hat as I had on before,
And i'll go home to me wife and i'll love her no more.
And the more I will beat her the more she will cry,
And the more silly drunkard and blackguard am i.