Joseph Skipsey

March 17, 1832 - September 3,1903 / Percy, Northumberland

Billy Taylor

'SWEET Billy Taylor went to sea!'
Bravo, my metre ballad-monger!
'With silver buckles on his knee!'
Another stave—a little longer!

'When he comes back he'll marry me!'
He'll marry you, you empty, airy
Nothing—marry you? Why, he—
''Whoo-hoo!' take that for your vagary!'
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