Pretty Penny-Oh
This is one of a family of songs which involve someone going down to a place and then meeting a young woman. For some unfathomable reason they never seem to go up to do this.
Pretty Penny-Oh appears on Sid's album East Side Story
As
I went dow, as he went dow,
As
we went down to Limpenhoe,
The
captain he was hot for a lady - like as not -
And
the name that she had was Pretty Penny-oh.
She
was a broad, she was a broad,
She
was a broad hearted lass-ee-o;
She'd
a bright and sparkling eye, and here's the reason why -
That
was made from the very finest glass-ee-o.
He's
shinning up the ladder to her window-oh;
Through
the window he did slide, but there was no light inside,
So
his foot slipped off into the pot below-ow
He
found her bra, he found her bra,
He
found her brass bedstead-ee-oh.
So
though it was pitch black he located her by that,
Though
he tripped on the cat and banged his head-ee-oh.
"No
longer wee, no longer wee,
No
longer weep for your love-ee-oh".
Then
oh so very neat he slipped between the sheets,
And
burned himself on her hot water bottlee-oh.
She
soon discerned his sigh, she soon discerned his sigh,
She
soon discerned his sighs as he lay by her-oh;
Let
there be no mistake that for the captain's sake,
It's
just as well that sighs is not important-oh.
What
will your mother say, what will your mother say,
What
will your mother say when she do know-ee-oh?
Her
mother she did say, as under him she lay;
"Did
you think that I was Pretty Penny-oh?"
But
when I went ho, when I went ho,
When
I went home from Limpenhoe,
The
captain was the lover of Penny and her mother,
And
they often performed all in a trio-ee-oh.
Copyright Chris Sugden, 1997