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egins not to warm at Eleven. _The Three Merry Travellers, who paid their shot wherever they came, without ever a Stiver of Money._ [Music] There was three Travellers, Travellers three, _With a hey down, ho down, Lanktre down derry_, And they would go Travel the _North_ Country, _Without ever a stiver of Money_. They Travelled _East_, and they Travelled _West_, _With a hey down_, &c. Wherever they came still they drank of the best, _Without ever_, &c. At length by good Fortune they came to an Inn, _With a hey down_, &c. And they were as merry as e'er they had been, _Without ever_, &c. A Jolly young Widdow did smiling appear, _With a hey down, ho down, Lanktre down derry_, Who drest them a Banquet of delicate cheer, _Without ever a penny of Money_. Both Chicken and Sparrow-grass she did provide, _With a hey down, ho down, Lanktre down derry_, You're Welcome kind Gentlemen, welcome she cry'd, _Without ever a Stiver of Money_. They called for liquor, both Beer, Ale, and Wine, _With a hey down_, &c. And every thing that was curious and fine, _Without ever_, &c. They drank to their Hostess a merry full Bowl, _With a hey down_, &c. She pledg'd them in Love, like a generous Soul, _Without ever_, &c. The Hostess, her Maid, and Cousin all three, _With a hey down_, &c. They Kist and was merry, as merry cou'd be, _Without ever_, &c. Full Bottles and Glasses replenish'd the Board, _With a hey down_, &c. No liquors was wanting the house could afford, _Without ever_, &c. When they had been Merry good part of the Day, _With a hey down_, &c. They called their Hostess to know what's to pay, _Without ever_, &c. There's Thirty good shillings, and Six pence, she cry'd, _With a hey down_, &c. They told her that she should be soon satisfy'd, _Without ever_, &c. The Handsomest Man of the three up he got; _With a hey down, ho down, Lanktre down derry_, He laid her on her Back, and paid her the shot, _Without ever a Stiver of Money_. The middlemost Man to her Cousin he went, _With a hey down, ho down, Lanktre down derry_, She being handsome, he gave her Content, _Without ever a Stiver of Money_. The last Man of all he took up with the Maid, _With a hey down_, &c. And thus the whole Shot it was lovingly paid, _Without ev
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