Songs of wonder

Here comes a lusty wooer,
My a dildin, my a daldin;
Here comes a lusty wooer,
Lily bright and shine-a!

Pray, who do you woo?
My a dildin, my a daldin,
Pray, who do you woo?
Lily bright and shine-a!

I woo your fairest daughter,
My a dildin, my a daldin;
I woo your fairest daughter;
Lily bright and shine-a!

Then there she is for you,
My a dildin, my a daldin;
Then there she is for you,
Lily bright and shine-a!

Down in yonder meadow where the green grass grows
Pretty Polly Pillicote bleaches her clothes;
She sang, she sang, she sang, O so sweet,
She sang O come over, O come over, across the street.

He kissed her, he kissed her, he bought her a gown,
A gown of rich cramasie out of the town;
He bought her a gown and a guinea gold ring,
A guinea, a guinea, a guinea, a guinea gold ring.

Down in yonder meadow where the green grass grows
Pretty Polly Pillicote bleaches her clothes;
She sang, she sang, she sang, O so sweet,
She sang O come over, O come over, across the street.

I saw a peacock with a fiery tail,
I saw a blazing comet drop down hail,
I saw a cloud with ivy curled around,
I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground,
I saw a pismire swallow up a whale,
I saw a raging sea brim full of ale!
I saw a Venice glass sixteen foot deep,
I saw a well full of mens' tears that weep,
I saw their eyes all in a flame of fire,
I saw a horse high as the moon and higher,
I saw the sun at twelve o'clock at night,
I saw the man who saw this wondrous sight!

Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,
You'll never see him more.
He used to wear a long brown coat
That button'd up before,

And on his feet two silver shoon
And buckles by the score.
Old Abram Brown is dead and gone.
Never, never, never more.

I had a little nut-tree, 
And nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg 
And a golden pear;

The King of Spain's daughter
She came to visit me,
And all for the sake 
Of my little nut-tree.

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