 When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And all the tunes that I could play Was  The road to Paris - Page 42by Robert Neilson Stephens - 1898 - 552 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 588 pages
...new-knit and so lately met, That I fear we part not yet," Quoth the baker to the pillory. — BC. 466. " When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteenpence, And all the tunes that 1 could play, Was Nix my dolly, pals, fake away." This reads... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Lamentation. Pills to Purge Melancholy found in The Nursery Rhymes of England by HALLIWELL PHILLIPS. 22 ' all the tunes that I could play Was, "Over the Hills and Far Away." Old Ballad, in the Pedlar's Pack... | |
 | England - 1923 - 896 pages
...took service with the King of 8ia.ni, where he settled and died. OECHESTEAL ODDMENTS. BY BG MURE. " When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence.''' ONLY I did not buy the fiddle ; my parents did. It cost rather more than eighteenpence, but has been... | |
 | Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin - English language - 1924 - 228 pages
...hearing ', a scolding. I giv her a hearin that'll do her good. HEAVE [hiv], throw, fling, in the rhyme : When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And all the tchoon that I cud play, Was ' Kek 'sy shovel and heave it away '. (Children's rhyme.) HECKYL... | |
 | Charles Lewis Hind - American poetry - 1925 - 182 pages
...with the saints we trust. 20 A third seeks the author of the following, which RL Stevenson loved : When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And the only tune that I could play Was over the hills and far away, So early in the morning, Before the break of day. Then... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 500 pages
...opinion. To go back to the date of which this to me is a happy anniversary, let me quote the old song : When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And the only tune that I could play Was "Over the Hills and Far Away." After my wandering, barn-storming, poverty-stricken,... | |
 | Andrew Horrall - History - 2001 - 290 pages
...verses long after her popularity had ebbed.76 For instance, the nineteenth-century children's rhyme When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence. became Lottie Collins, she had no sense, She bought a piano for eighteen pence, And all she played... | |
 | Iona Opie, Peter Opie - Social Science - 2000 - 468 pages
...'verve' (as the posters described it) of her dancing. In no great space of time the schoolchild ditty, When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence . . ., which had been popular since the middle of the century,1 was re-tuned in her honour: Lottie... | |
 | Wales - 1890 - 570 pages
...the eye, " Ivy," said Holly, do you want any more ? " " Oh dear no," said Ivy, " my eye is too sore." When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And all the tunes that I could play Was " Over the hills and far away." Oh dear ! what can the matter be,... | |
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