Polly Hopkins & Tommy Tompkins

Words & music: John Paddon (1827)

(published by George Willig & Co. Publishers, Baltimore, 1881)

		1.
	Tommy	Pretty, pretty Polly Hopkins, how d’ye do? how d’ye do?
	Polly	None the better, Tommy Tomkins for seeing you, for seeing you.
	Tommy	I’m a man of wealth.
	Polly	Be quiet pray.
	Tommy	Take all my pelf.
	Polly	Pray get away.
	Tommy	Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins to treat me so, to treat me so.
	Polly	Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tomkins to teaze me so, to teaze me so.

		2.
	Tommy	When we are married, Polly Hopkins which we will be, which we will be.
	Polly	I hope the next day, Tommy Tomkins, to bury thee, to bury thee.
	Tommy	I’ll handsome grow,
	Polly	That I deny.
	Tommy	Though ugly now.
	Polly	Worse by and by.
	Tommy	Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins to treat me so, to treat me so.
	Polly	Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tompkins to teaze me so, to teaze me so.

		3.
	Tommy	When I am dead, Polly Hopkins, remember me, remember me.
	Polly	With all my heart Tommy Tomkins so let it be, so let it be.
	Tommy	Then you’ll fret and cry.
	Polly	Ah! to be sure,
	Tommy	To think that I,
	Polly	Died not before,
	Tommy	Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins to treat me so, to treat me so.
	Polly	Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tomkins to teaze me so, to teaze me so.

		4.
	Tommy	Pretty, pretty Polly Hopkins how d’ye do? how d’ye do?
	Polly	None the better, Tommy Tomkins for seeing you, for seeing you.
	Tommy	I’m a man of wealth.
	Polly	Be quiet pray.
	Tommy	Take all my pelf.
	Polly	Pray get away.
both:	Tommy	Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins to treat me so, to treat me so. (2x)
both:	Polly	Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tomkins to teaze me so, to teaze me so. (2x)