Walsh in 1719.
Adapted by Andrew Shaw in 2002
proper duple minor
Tune: Old Hob' or 'The Mouse Trap
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12TOQ4G3b0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6Boask1KA
William Chappell (1855) records that the words are by Thomas D'Urfey set to a tune that appeared first in a 1696 play written by Doggett called The Country Wake.
Of all the simple things we do, To rub over a whimsical life; There's no one folly is so true, As that very bad bargain, a wife. We're just like a mouse in a trap, Or rat that is caught in a gin; We start and fret, and try to escape, And rue the sad hour we came in.
“Marriage, or, The Mouse Trap”