“The Bristol Coachman”

Description

A coachman is enticed home by a girl. Her husband catches him. The coachman proposes "if I have slept with your good wife, I'll let you sleep with mine." The husband demands forty or fifty pounds.

Broadsides

  • Bodleian, Harding B 28(109), "Whip Away For Ever O" ("Come all you country lasses, come listen to my song"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 25(287), "The Bristol Coachman"

References

  1. Opie-Oxford2 409, "Up at Piccadilly oh!" (2 texts)
  2. Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #238, p. 153, "(Up at Piccadilly oh!)"
  3. BI, OO2409

About

Alternate titles: “The Jolly Bristol Coachman”
Author: unknown
Earliest date: before 1825 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 28(109))