Broadside Man

D A F G A

Come and buy, come and buy, be you poor and gentry.

D G A D

Gather 'round the broadsideman and lay your money down.

D A F G A

We have ballads long and short and the best of every sort,

D G A D

for a single pountry penny all the news of London town.

There are floods in Worchester town and the rain is tumbelin' down.

A most amazing monster has been captured in the deep.

Here's a bold and stirring tale of the hunting of a whale

and the story of a person who was pressed away to sea.

Come and buy...

Here's the finest sheets of all, fresh from today from Stationers Hall.

A newly written ballad of Lord Nelsons victory.

Here's the news from all the courts and the cases and reports

and the ranting of a pirate who was hanged on Tiger Tree.

Come and buy...

Here's the tale about a maid of a brisk and ramblin' trade,

betraying of a tinker who was taken by her charm,

and the story of a wife, it's the truth upon my life,

who came upon her husband roling in the milkmaids arms.

||: Come and buy... :||

Denne vise handler om en avissælger der sælger skillingsviser. Han synger nyhederne fra avisen.

The Pure Malt Songbook

David Fønsbo

2005-01-23T13:49:01