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From “Songs and Catches”
WHERE is the landlord of old Hawk and Buckle, | |
| And what of Master Straddler this hot summer weather? | |
| He’s along in the tap room with fat cheeks a-chuckle, | |
| And ten bold companions all drinking together. | |
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| Where is the daughter of old Hawk and Buckle, | 5 |
| And what of Mistress Jenny this hot summer weather? | |
| She sits in the parlor with smell of honeysuckle, | |
| Trimming her bonnet with white ostrich feather. | |
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| Where is the ostler of old Hawk and Buckle, | |
| And what of Willy Dodger this hot summer weather? | 10 |
| He is rubbing his eyes with a slow and lazy knuckle | |
| As he wakes from his nap on a bank of fresh heather. | |
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| Where is the page boy of old Hawk and Buckle, | |
| And what of our young Charlie this hot summer weather? | |
| He is bobbing for tiddlers in a little trickle-truckle | 15 |
| With his line and his hook and his breeches of leather. | |
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| Where is the she-goat of old Hawk and Buckle, | |
| And what of pretty Nanny this hot summer weather? | |
| She stays not contented with mickle or with muckle, | |
| Straining for daisies at the end of her tether. | 20 |
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| For this is our motto at old Hawk and Buckle— | |
| We cling to it close and we sing all together: | |
| “Every soul for himself at our old Hawk and Buckle, | |
| And devil take the hindmost this hot summer weather.” | |
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