A New Song To An Old Tune

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Title:     A New Song To An Old Tune
Author: George Borrow [More Titles by Borrow]

Who starves his wife,
And denies her clothing?
Bright the Shaker,
The humbug Quaker!

_Merrily danced the Quaker's wife_,
_Merrily danced the Quaker_;
_But the wife of Bright is too starved to dance_,
_And he's too fat to caper_.

He grudges the wretch a morsel of food,
He grudges her even clothing;
Once, 'tis said, to the cupboard she stole,
But there to steal found nothing.

But Bright's as fat as a bacon hog,
The old outrageous sinner;
For he will stuff at any fool's cost,
Who'll ask him home to dinner.

_Merrily danced the Quaker's wife_,
_Merrily danced the Quaker_;
_But the wife of Bright is too starved to dance_,
_And he's too fat to caper_.

Who starves his wife,
And denies her clothing?
Bright the Shaker,
The humbug Quaker!

[The end]
George Borrow's poem: A New Song To An Old Tune

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