The Keach in the Creel
A fair young maid went up the streetsome white fish for to bya bonnie clerk's fall'n in love with herand he followed her by and byoh where are you going my bonnie lassI pray thee tell to meoh if the night be never so darkI'll come and visit thee
My father locks the door at tenmy mother keeps the keyif you were never such a roving bladeyou'd never win, in to mebut the clerk he had a brotherand a wily wag was hehe's made him a long ladderwith thirty steps and three
The old wife she was standing byshe heard a word was saidI could lay my life, says the silly old wifethere's a man in our daughter's bedthe old man he got out of bedto see if the thing was truebut she's taken the bonny clerk in her armsand covered him o'er with blue
Up then got the old silly wifeto see if it were trueand she fell arselins in the creeland up the string they drewif that foul thief has gotten youmay he hold you so tightfor you'll never stay in your bednor rest with me at night
He's towed her up, he's towed her downand given her a right down, falltill every rib an the old wife's sideplayed nick, nack on the walloh the blue, the bonnie bonnie blueand I wish it may do welland every old wife that's jealous of her daughterget a good keach in the creel