When
I were a lad I were so glad to go out in the daytime
With me fork, and a bottle and a cork to help out
in the haytime
While tossin' hay upon the mound met young Lucy Bailey
And I said my dear Are you often here, she said Yes
sir, twice daily
We
had such fun in the summer sun, Lucy were so thrillin'
Sweet and pure but I wern't sure that young maid were
willin'
Till one day among the hay we was working gaily
She up's and slips and zomut rips and I went there
twice daily
(Oh
Ah Oh I did too)
She
said dear I do feel queer think I outa tellee
Tant new bread she sadly said that swelling up me
belly
Told her go to Doctor Joe off she went so gaily
He gave a dollop of a gert thick jollop and said take
this twice daily
(
Orriable stuff twer )
Now
Lucy's dad wer very mad, chased I 'round the haymound
Said my son you've had your fun, the time has come
to pay now
My girl you'll wed, the old man said as he waved his
shotgun gaily
If you don't, he says, I'll put some lead and you
won't go there twice daily
(Ow
painful that )
Well
the very next day in the month of May held the ceremony
Paid off the vicar with a gallon of liquor, rode to
church on a pony
And the village folks from miles around waved and
shouted gaily
There's no doubt you'll get caught out if you goes
there twice daily
(
They were right too (I did)
Now
to Lucy's joy she had a boy, what a little darlin'
Round and fat as a Cheshire cat, perky as a starlin'
Skin were smooth as a cider jar and they called him
Buster Bailey
Fed him on sweeds and charlotte weeds and a pint of
scrump twice daily
(
Fat little bleeder too)
Now
we'me old, our story's told, been forty years together
And we often stray where we tossed the hay in that
old time summer weather
Kids we've got full ten or more, we goes on quiet
gaily
Tho' I'm old and grey when I gets me way I still go
there twice daily.
