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T:Flash Company
B: Purslow, F, (1968), The Wanton Seed, EDFS, London
S:Job Read, Southampton, July 1906
Z:Gardiner H.365
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:First I loved Will-*iam and then I loved John,_
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w:But now I love Thom-*as, he's a cle-ver young man.
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w:With his white cot-ton stock-ings and his high ank-led shoes,_
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w:He wears a vel-vet jack-et, like a flash lad he_ goes.
W:First I loved William and then I loved John,
W:But now I love Thomas, he's a clever young man.
W:With his white cotton stockings and his high ankled shoes,
W:He wears a velvet jacket, like a flash lad he goes.
W:
W:It's fiddling and dancing was all his delight,
W:And keeping flash company has ruined him quite,
W:Has ruined him quite and a great many more,
W:If he hadn't kept flash company he had never been so poor.
W:
W:Oh, take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me,
W:And wear it all round your neck when in flash company.
W:Dry up your briny tears and don't look so sad,
W:There's plenty more flash girls all wish to be had.