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The Drunkard (including Camptown Races) (2010 Digital Remaster) - Steeleye Span

Traditional

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.