Old Skinflint

'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones

See old daddy Skinflint dance in his bones,

Old Skinflint on the gallows-tree,

Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me.

"Why do you dance, do you dance so high?

Why do you dance in the windy sky?

Why do you dance in your naked bones

'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones?

Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me,

Why do you dance on the gallows-tree,

Who never tripped on a dancing floor

Or flung your heels in a reel before?

You taught me many a cunning thing

But never taught me to dance and sing,

Yet I must do whatever you do,

So when you dance I must dance too."

'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones

See old daddy Skinflint dance in his bones,

Old Skinflint on the gallows-tree

Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me.