/ · John S. Farmer’s Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
Blooming Æsthetic
Blooming Æsthetic
1882
From The Rag, 30 Sept..
He
I
A dealer-in-coke young man,
A wallop-his-moke young man,
A slosher-of-pals,
A spooning-with-gals,
1 making love
An ought-to-be-blowed young man.
II
A tell-a-good-whopper young man,
2 lie
A slogging-a-copper young man,
3 assaulting the police
A pay-on-the-nod,
4 take unlimited credit
An always-in-quod,
5 in prison
A sure-to-be-scragged young man.
6 hung
III
A Sunday-flash-togs young man,
7 clothes
A pocket-of-hogs young man,
8 silver
A save-all-his-rhino,
9 money
A cut-a-big-shine, oh,
Will soon-have-a-pub young man
She
I
A powder-and-paint young girl,
Not-quite-a-saint young girl,
An always-get-tight,
10 drunk
A stay-out-all-night,
Have-a-kid-in-the-end young girl.
11 child
II
Make-a-bloke-a-choke young girl,
Love-a-gin-soak young girl,
12 drunken bout
On-the-kerb-come-a-cropper,
Run-in-by-a-copper,
13 policeman
“Fined-forty-bob ”—young girl.
III
A tallow-faced-straight young girl,
A never-out-late young girl,
A Salvation-mummery,
Smoleless-and-glummery,
Kid-by-a-captain young girl.
Taken from
Musa Pedestris,
Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
[1536―1896], collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.
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