My Boy Hobbie O
New Song to the tune of
"Whare hae ye been a' day,My boy Tammy O.!Courting o' a young thingJust come frae her Mammie O."
HOW came you in Hob's pound to cool,My boy Hobbie O?Because I bade the people pullThe House into the Lobby O.
What did the House upon this call,My boy Hobbie O?They voted me to Newgate all,Which is an awkward Jobby O.
Who are now the people's men,My boy Hobbie O?There's I and Burdett--GentlemenAnd blackguard Hunt and Cobby O.
You hate the house--why canvass, then?My boy Hobbie O?Because I would reform the denAs member for the Mobby O.
Wherefore do you hate the Whigs,My boy Hobbie O?Because they want to run their rigs,As under Walpole Bobby O.
But when we at Cambridge wereMy boy Hobbie O,If my memory don't errYou founded a Whig Clubbie O.
When to the mob you make a speech,My boy Hobbie O,How do you keep without their reachThe watch within your fobby O?
But never mind such petty things,My boy Hobbie O;God save the people--damn all Kings,So let us Crown the Mobby O!
Yours truly,
(Signed) INFIDUS SCURRA.
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