 | 1842 - 468 Seiten
...of which he carried the key, he laid down his hat and walked into the supper-room, singing — " Old King Cole, was a merry old soul, " And a merry old soul was he, Sec. &c." The whole affair was the transaction of a few minutes, for so quickly had he managed, that... | |
 | 1921 - 864 Seiten
...happy commune of 'la douce France.' [The New Witness] OLD KING COLE: A PARODY BY GK CHESTERTON Old King Cole was a merry old soul. And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, He called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. After LORD TENXYSON. COLE, that unwearied... | |
 | 1855 - 846 Seiten
...daughter of that old King Cole of whom the song says, with such delicious and iterated emphasis, that he Was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he ; whether she was daughter of a venerable potentate or of a joyous inn-keeper; whether she was born... | |
 | 1846 - 300 Seiten
...185 18. RELICS . . . . . .189 19. LIFE AND DEATH OP TOM THUMB . . . 205 FIRST CLASS—HISTORICAL. OLD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul...Oh, there's none so rare, fiddlers.] As can compare [The traditional Nursery Rhymes of England commence with a legendary satire on King Cole, who reigned... | |
 | Vauxhall comic song-book - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...'ounds, I fought Till I'd not a leg to spare. And when the, &c. OLD KIN(J COLE. Music at Willis's. OID King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - 118 Seiten
...Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ! *§5» 50. ALD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler,... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1847 - 432 Seiten
...and seduced by sundry glasses of enlivening sherry, he volunteered the unsaintly ballad of — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he," &c. &c. The blatant objurgations of the Wesleyan spinsters present, dumbfoundered the vivacious young... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 Seiten
...and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says : — . . " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he 1 " , And was his dog proud because his master was called king? Here are questions to be proposed in... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 Seiten
...not fit for me 1 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OLD KING COLE Music — at Prowse's, 12, Hanway Street. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. There was Paganini... | |
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OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. 
