_Kit._ The morning may dawn as sure as you're born,
_Ade._ Will find us dancing alone
_Kit._ I'll get a hack, be off in a crack, [3]
_Ade._ An elegant Darby and Joan!
How'll the vulgarians stare
As they see you sportingly!
_Both._For none can splash it, dash it, splash it,
_Crissy Addy_ little you and I.
[1: clothes]
[2: horses]
[3: instant]
THE DASHY, SPLASHY.... LITTLE STRINGER [Notes]
[1841]
[By LEMAN REDE, being Kit's Song in _Sixteen-String Jack_].
I
A cloudy night, and pretty hard it blow'd,
The dashy, splashy, leary little stringer, [1]
Mounted his roan, and took the road--
Phililoo!
"My Lord Cashall's on the road to-night,
Down with the lads, make my lord alight--
Ran dan row de dow, on we go!"
_Chorus_.--Ran, dan, etc.