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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