Annotation:There was an old fellow at Waltham Cross
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THERE WAS AN OLD FELLOW AT WALTHAM CROSS. AKA and see "Taunton Dean." English, Air (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Chappell (1859) states this song is quoted as an old song in The Jovial Crew, Brome's play acted in 1641 at the Cock pit, in Drury Lane. Ninety years later The Jovial Crew was turned into a ballad opera, and this song was retained, though with the name "Taunton Dean." It also appears in Antidote against Melancholy (1661).
There was an old fellow at Waltham Cross,
Who merrily sung when he liv’d by the loss,
He never was heard to sight with hey ho!
But sent it out with a heigh trolly lo!
He cheer’d up his heart when his goods went to wrack,
With a hem, boys, hem, And a cup of good sack.
