THE

COUNTRY LOVERS;

OR,

MR. JONATHAN JOLTHEAD'S

Courtship with Miss Sally Snapper:

AN EXCELLENT

NEW SONG,

SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY ITS AUTHOR ;

And really founded on fact.

TUNE-"YANKEE DOODLE."

THE

COUNTRY LOVERS, &c.

A MERRY tale I will rehearse,
As ever you did hear, sir,
How Jonathan set out, so fierce,
To see his dearest dear, sir.

Yankee doodle,* keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy,

Mind the musick-mind the step,
And with the girls be handy.

His father gave him bran new suit,
And money, sir, in plenty,
Besides a prancing nag to boot,

When he was one-and-twenty.

Yankee doodle, &c.

* Yankee doodle, a ludicrous musical air, which I be. lieve was first invented by the English, in derision of the Americans, whom they styled "Yankees." The Americans frequently wrote ludicrous songs to this tune. This chorus is quoted from a song, written, I believe, in Boston.

Moreover, sir, I'd have you know,
That he had got some knowledge,
Enough for common use, I trow,
But had not been at college.

Yankee doodle, &c.

A hundred he could count, 'tis said,
And in the bible read, sir,

And by good Christian parents bred,
Could even say the creed, sir.

Yankee doodle, &c.

He'd been to school to Master Drawl,

To spell a-bom-in-a-ble,

And when he miss'd, he had to crawl,

Straight under master's table.

Yankee doodle, &c.

One day his mother said to him, "My darling son, come here,

"Come fix you up, so neat and trim,

"And go a courting, dear."

Yankee doodle, &c.