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| COME Micky and Molly and dainty Dolly, | |
| Come Betty and blithesome Bill; | |
| Ye gossips and neighbors, away with your labors! | |
| Come to the top of the hill. | |
| For there are Jenny and jovial Joe; | 5 |
| Jolly and jolly, jolly they go, | |
| Jogging over the hill. | |
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| By apple and berry, ’t is twelve months merry | |
| Since Jenny and Joe were wed! | |
| And never a bother or quarrelsome pother | 10 |
| To rouble the board or bed. | |
| So Joe and Jenny are off to Dunmow: | |
| Happy and happy, happy they go, | |
| Young and rosy and red. | |
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| Oh, Jenny ’s as pretty as doves in a ditty; | 15 |
| And Jenny, her eyes are black; | |
| And Joey ’s a fellow as merry and mellow | |
| As ever shoulder’d a sack. | |
| So quick, good people, and come to the show! | |
| Merry and merry, merry they go, | 20 |
| Bumping on Dobbin’s back. | |
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| They ’ve prank’d up old Dobbin with ribands and bobbin, | |
| And tether’d his tail in a string! | |
| The fat flitch of bacon is not to be taken | |
| By many that wear the ring! | 25 |
| Good luck, good luck, to Jenny and Joe! | |
| Jolly and jolly, jolly they go. | |
| Hark! how merry they sing. | |
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| “O merry, merry, merry are we, | |
| Happy as birds that sing in a tree! | 30 |
| All of the neighbors are merry to-day, | |
| Merry are we and merry are they. | |
| O merry are we! for love, you see, | |
| Fetters a heart and sets it free. | |
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| “O happy, happy, happy is life | 35 |
| For Joe (that ’s me) and Jenny my wife! | |
| All of the neighbors are happy, and say— | |
| ‘Never were folk so happy as they!’ | |
| O happy are we! for love, you see, | |
| Fetters a heart and sets it free. | 40 |
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| “O jolly, jolly, jolly we go, | |
| I and my Jenny, and she and her Joe. | |
| All of the neighbors are jolly, and sing— | |
| ‘She is a queen, and he is a king!’ | |
| O jolly are we! for love, you see, | 45 |
| Fetters a heart and sets it free.” | |
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