X:2273 T:Pretty Peg R:song Z:id:hn-song-101 M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=110 K:D A | dd cA | dd cA | dd cA | B3 A | BB Bc/c/ | dd FG/G/ | AA GE | D2 || DE | F/F/F F/E/D/E/ | FD DE | F/F/F F/E/D/E/ | F3 || W:When pretty Peg went down the street some fresh fish for to buy W:But the wee town clerk followed after her, and he kissed her by and by W: W:Chorus: W:With my tiddy right fol da diddle dido W:With my tiddy right fol da diddle day W: W:"Oh, how can I get to your chamber, love, or how can I get to your bed? W:When your daddy goes to bed at night with the key lying under his head" W: W:Chorus W: W:"Oh, go and get a ladder, love, with thirty steps and three W:And put it to the chimney top and come down in a creel to me" W: W:Chorus W: W:"I went and got a ladder, love, with thirty steps and three W:And a creel, on the top of that and come down in the lum to thee" W: W:Chorus W: W:No peace nor ease could the old wife get, with dreams running through her head W:"I'll lay me life", said the gay old wife, "there's a boy in me daughter's bed" W: W:Chorus W: W:Then up the stairs the old man crept and into the room did steal W:Silence reigned for the daughter slept and he never twigged the creel W: W:"My curse attend you, Father, what brought you up so soon? W:To put me through my evening prayers, and I just lying down" W: W:Chorus W: W:He went back to his gay old wife, he went back to she W:"She has the prayer book in her hand and she's praying for you and me" W: W:Chorus W: W:No peace nor ease could the old wife get till she would rise and see W:She came on a stumbling-block and into the creel went she. W: W:Chorus W: W:"Hi I rocked her, ho, I rocked here, didn't I rock her well W:For if any old wife begrudge me her daughter I'd rock her into Hell" W: W:Chorus