The Absent-Minded Beggar Lyrics

England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring-- Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne! Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King-- England's being hammered, hammered, hammered ...Read Full Lyrics

It I have given you delight By aught that I have done, Let me lie quiet in that night Which shall be yours anon: And for the little, little, span The dead are born in mind, ...Read Full Lyrics

Before Twas not while England's sword unsheathed Put half a world to flight, Nor while their new-built cities breathed Secure behind her might; Not while she poured from Pole ...Read Full Lyrics

This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone, Erst a Pretender to Theebaw's throne, Who harried the district of Alalone: How he met with his fate and the V.P.P.* At the hand of Harendra ...Read Full Lyrics

Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away -- We that took the ~B...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, n...Read Full Lyrics

That night, when through the mooring-chains The wide-eyed corpse rolled free, To blunder down by Garden Reach And rot at Kedgeree, The tale the Hughli told the shoal The lean ...Read Full Lyrics

One moment bid the horses wait, Since tiffin is not laid till three, Below the upward path and straight You climbed a year ago with me. Love came upon us suddenly And loosed -...Read Full Lyrics

Wardour Street Border Ballad "Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup," The kneeling doctor said. And syne he bade them take him up, For he saw that the man was dead. The...Read Full Lyrics

About the time that taverns shut And men can buy no beer, Two lads went up to the keepers' hut To steal Lord Pelham's deer. Night and the liquor was in their heads-- They la...Read Full Lyrics