Peg Leg Jack

Peg Leg Jack went out one night to get a little gin

He went up to the landlord's house, the landlord wasn't in

He rapped and rapped, he rapped and

Rapped, he rapped all night in vain

When all of a sudden came upon the window pane

Up to the window he turned his head and there a maid he spied

And he thought by the way that she turned

Her head that she would be his bride

"Come down, come down," says Peg Leg

Jack, "and sit on the porch with me"

Then down she came and sat on the porch as pretty as ever you'd see

But all of a sudden here came her father driving the village hack

With a roar and a bellow, "A-hey

Young fella!" he started for Peg Leg Jack

Then Jack went off with a yelp and a shout, for life to him was sweet

And Jack's peg leg went down the village street

The old mule cried, the fat lady

Screamed, the constable let out a yell

He grabbed the young lad by the collar and locked him in the cell

Then Peg Leg Jack he hurried back the maiden for to wed

But he found that she had gone and married a soldier boy instead

Poor Jack cried and then he bellowed and then began to roar

He jumped in a ship with his and sailed away from shore

He sailed away, so far away, he sailed as fast as sin

And Peg Leg Jack and his were never seen again