tabulated by ,
4 4 4 4 5 6 6
As I walked out one morning
6 5 -4 5 6 5
To take the pleasant air--
5 -4 4 4 6 6
Rolly trudum, trudum,
-4 4 -4 5 4
Rolly trudum day.
6 6 6 6 -6 7 8
As I walked out one morning
-8 7 7 7 6 -6
To take the pleasant air--
-6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6
I heard a kind old mother
6 5 5 -4 5 6 5
A-scolding her daughter fair.
5-4 4 4 6 6
Rolly trudum, trudum,
-4 4 -4 5 4
Rolly trudum day.
Oh, hush your silly prattle,
Oh, hush your silly tongue.
Rolly trudum---etc
Oh, hush your silly prattle,
Oh, hush your silly tongue.
You know you can't get married.
You know you are too young.
Rolly trudum---etc.
Oh, pity my condition
Just as you would your own.
Rolly trudum---etc.
For fourteen years I've lived all alone.
Rolly trudum--etc.
Supposing I was willing
Oh, where'd you get your man
Rolly trudum--etc
Why, lord sakes, Mammy
I would marry forty more.
Rolly trudum
Suppose he would slight you
Just like he did before.
Rolly trudum--etc
Suppose--etc.
Oh, now she is married,
It is well for to be.
Rolly trudum--etc
Six married daughters
And I believer I'll marry too
Rolly trudum, etc.
Why lord sakes, Mammy
It's who would marry you?
Rolly trudum etc.--
There;s lawyers and doctors
And many for to agree
Rolly trudum, etc.
Now I am married
Its well for to be
Rolly trudum, etc.
Ha! Ha! Jolly girls,
The fit is off of me!
Rolly trudum, etc.