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<DATE>2008-10-01</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080859.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>TOM Tell-Truth.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>All you that will not me believe,</L>
<L>di&s;prove me if you can;</L>
<L>You by my Story may perceive,</L>
<L>I am an Hone&s;t Man.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Tanta ra ra ra, Tantivee.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
<HEAD>TOM Tell-Truth.</HEAD>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>I killed a Man and he was dead,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la la la la la,</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I killed a Man and he was dead,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I killed a Man and he was dead,</L>
<L>And run to St. <HI>Albans</HI> without a head</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, fa la la la, fa la la la la la la.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I asked him why he run &s;o wild,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I asked him why he run &s;o wild,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I asked him why run &s;o wild.</L>
<L>He told me he got a Maid with-Child,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in his head there was a Spring,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>And in his head there was a Spring,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>And in his head there was a Spring,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and great Salmons about there did swim,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I Sadled a Whore and rid to <HI>White-Hall,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I Sadled a hore and rid to <HI>White-Hall,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I Sadled a Whore and rid to <HI>White-Hall,</HI></L>
<L>And under the Gate-hou&s;e &s;he gave me a fall,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>I lay in a Swound three and twenty long year,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I lay in a Swound three and twenty long year,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I lay in a Swound three and twenty long year,</L>
<L>And when I awak'd I was filled with fear,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The thing that did fright me I cannot expre&s;s,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The thing that did fright me I cannot expre&s;s,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The thing that did fright me I cannot expre&s;s,</L>
<L>I &s;aw a Man big as the Tower, no le&s;s,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Man with the Monument would run away,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>This Man with the Monument would run away,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>This Man with the Monument would run away,</L>
<L>But at <HI>Algate</HI> Watch they did him &s;tay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I got up agen and rid to <HI>Hide-Park,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I got up agen and rid to <HI>Hide-Park,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I got up agen and rid to <HI>Hide-Park,</HI></L>
<L>And made the Old Whore to &s;neeze and to fart,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A top of <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple there did I &s;ee,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>A top of <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple there did I &s;ee,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>A top of <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple there did I &s;ee,</L>
<L>A delicate dainty fine Apple-Tree,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Apples were ripe and ready to fall,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The Apples were ripe and ready to fall,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The Apples were ripe and ready to fall,</L>
<L>And kill'd &s;even hundred Men on a Stall,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The blood did run both too and fro,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The blood did run both too and fro,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The blood did run both too and fro,</L>
<L>Which cau&s;ed &s;even Water-Mills all for to go,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;ee <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple run upon Wheels,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I &s;ee <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple run upon Wheels,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fa la, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I &s;ee <HI>Pauls</HI> Steeple run upon Wheels,</L>
<L>And in the middle of all <HI>Moor-fields,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with a fa la la la la la, fa la la la la la la.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P><HI>Printed for</HI> J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, <HI>and</HI> T. Pa&s;&s;inger.</P>
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