l'nel Fairfax and no other
Was the man to whom I clung!

ALL Col'nel Fairfax and no other,
Was the man to whom he clung!

WILFRED After mighty tug and tussle--

POINT It resembled more a struggle--

WILFRED He, by dint of stronger muscle--

POINT Or by some infernal juggle--

WILFRED From my clutches quickly sliding--

POINT I should rather call it slipping--

WILFRED With a view, no doubt, of hiding--

POINT Or escaping to the shipping--

WILFRED With a gasp, and with a quiver--

POINT I'd describe it as a shiver--

WILFRED Down he dived into the river,
And, alas, I cannot swim.

ALL It's enough to make one shiver,
With a gasp, and with a quiver,
Down he dived into the river;
It was very brave of him!

WILFRED Ingenuity is catching;
With the view my King of pleasing,
Arquebus from sentry snatching--

POINT I should rather call it seizing--

WILFRED With an ounce or two of lead
I dispatched him through the head!

ALL With an ounce or two of lead
He dispatched him through the head!

WILFRED I discharged it without winking,
Little time I lost in thinking,
Like a stone I saw him sinking--

POINT I should say a lump of lead.

ALL He discharged it without winking,
Little time he lost in thinking.

WILFRED Like a stone I saw him sinking--

POINT I should say a lump of lead.

WILFRED Like a stone, my boy, I said--

POINT Like a heavy lump of lead.

WILFRED Like a stone, my boy, I said--

POINT Like a heavy lump of lead.

WILFRED Anyhow, the man is dead,
Whether stone or lump of lead!

ALL Anyhow, the man is dead,
Whether stone or lump of lead!
Arquebus from sentry seizing,
With the view his King of pleasing,
Arquebus