Royal Agricultural Show

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COME all you gallant Englishmnn
Attend unto my song,
See how the Kent and, Sussex lads
To Lewes driye along ;
God speed the harrow and the plough,
The barley mow and flail,
And here's to every pretty maid
That carries a milking pail.
Both high and low to Lewes drive,
Weeae tens of thousands go,
In mirth and joy, and all alive,
To the Agricultural Show.

From Steyning and from Brighton,
Shorehem, and Worthing too,
From Seaford and Newhaven,
Like Britons of true blue ;
To Lewes pretty maids and men
So nimbly do go,
For to behold the wonderful
Great Agrieultural Show.

There's horses large as elephants,
There's heifers, bulls, and cows,
From a distant land the dirty ram,
With foreign boars and sows ;
There's goats and geese, bacon and pigs,
With lots of Irish pigs,
There's calves as big as buffaloes,
And donkeys wearing wigs.

There's Farmer Chubb, and his man, John
So jovially on do go.
Singing, the Jolly Waggoner,
Drive on my lads heigho !
The farmer's wives with cabbage nets,
On mettled nags so fine,
And a bustle like a man of war,
A sticking out behind.

Then here's the Horticultural Show,
Flowers of every kind,
The daisy and the tulip,
The pink, and rose so fine ;
The geranium, and the myrtle,
The snowdrop and the drum,
The cauliflower and strawberry,
The apple and the plum.

Near Lewes town of high renown,
There never was you know
Such a glorious sight, with views so bright,
The Agricultural Show ;
May every poor man in the land,
Enjoy a pig and cow,
And with his wife sing day and night,
May heaven speed the plough.

To see the country men and, maids
Singing as they pass by,
The sun so hot, I'm froze to death,
Susannah don't you cry ;
And when the day is over,
From Lewes they will sweat,
To Nottingham Street, in Brighton,
A lodging for to get.

And as you roam near Lewes town,
Don't tumble on the ploughs,
Mind the horses, pigs, and bulls,
The B lly goats and ploughs ;
See Sussex Bet to run and sweat,
And Jane and Johnny go,
All in delight, with eyes so bright,
To the Agricultural Show.

Disley, Printer, Arthur-stree,Oxford-street