Nothing Else to Do.Copied by permission ofRussell & Tolman, 192 Washington St., Boston,owners of the copyright.The summer is ended, the harvest is gone,I’ve mowed all my meadows, I’ve housed all my corn;And sweet Katie’s cottage stood fair to my view,And so I went a courting, I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do,Nothing else to do,And so I went a courting,For I’d nothing else to do.I met my sweet Katie, and down we did sit,And there we commenced a murmuring chat,I told her I loved her, to try if she loved too,I kiss’d her sweet lips, for I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.Oh, down to yonder village we straight took our way,We met Father Hagan so honest and gay;I gave him his fees to make one of us two,And so we got married, we’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.And now I’m married, and live in content,And those I left behind me, I leave to lament;I love my parents and friends, that is true,And somebody else, when I’ve nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.’Tis well to remember and bear in mind,A constant companion is hard for to find;And when you find one that is constant and true,Cherish her even if you’ve something else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
Copied by permission ofRussell & Tolman, 192 Washington St., Boston,owners of the copyright.
The summer is ended, the harvest is gone,I’ve mowed all my meadows, I’ve housed all my corn;And sweet Katie’s cottage stood fair to my view,And so I went a courting, I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do,Nothing else to do,And so I went a courting,For I’d nothing else to do.I met my sweet Katie, and down we did sit,And there we commenced a murmuring chat,I told her I loved her, to try if she loved too,I kiss’d her sweet lips, for I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.Oh, down to yonder village we straight took our way,We met Father Hagan so honest and gay;I gave him his fees to make one of us two,And so we got married, we’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.And now I’m married, and live in content,And those I left behind me, I leave to lament;I love my parents and friends, that is true,And somebody else, when I’ve nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.’Tis well to remember and bear in mind,A constant companion is hard for to find;And when you find one that is constant and true,Cherish her even if you’ve something else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
The summer is ended, the harvest is gone,I’ve mowed all my meadows, I’ve housed all my corn;And sweet Katie’s cottage stood fair to my view,And so I went a courting, I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do,Nothing else to do,And so I went a courting,For I’d nothing else to do.I met my sweet Katie, and down we did sit,And there we commenced a murmuring chat,I told her I loved her, to try if she loved too,I kiss’d her sweet lips, for I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.Oh, down to yonder village we straight took our way,We met Father Hagan so honest and gay;I gave him his fees to make one of us two,And so we got married, we’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.And now I’m married, and live in content,And those I left behind me, I leave to lament;I love my parents and friends, that is true,And somebody else, when I’ve nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.’Tis well to remember and bear in mind,A constant companion is hard for to find;And when you find one that is constant and true,Cherish her even if you’ve something else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
The summer is ended, the harvest is gone,I’ve mowed all my meadows, I’ve housed all my corn;And sweet Katie’s cottage stood fair to my view,And so I went a courting, I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do,Nothing else to do,And so I went a courting,For I’d nothing else to do.
The summer is ended, the harvest is gone,
I’ve mowed all my meadows, I’ve housed all my corn;
And sweet Katie’s cottage stood fair to my view,
And so I went a courting, I’d nothing else to do.
Nothing else to do,
Nothing else to do,
And so I went a courting,
For I’d nothing else to do.
I met my sweet Katie, and down we did sit,And there we commenced a murmuring chat,I told her I loved her, to try if she loved too,I kiss’d her sweet lips, for I’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
I met my sweet Katie, and down we did sit,
And there we commenced a murmuring chat,
I told her I loved her, to try if she loved too,
I kiss’d her sweet lips, for I’d nothing else to do.
Nothing else to do, &c.
Oh, down to yonder village we straight took our way,We met Father Hagan so honest and gay;I gave him his fees to make one of us two,And so we got married, we’d nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
Oh, down to yonder village we straight took our way,
We met Father Hagan so honest and gay;
I gave him his fees to make one of us two,
And so we got married, we’d nothing else to do.
Nothing else to do, &c.
And now I’m married, and live in content,And those I left behind me, I leave to lament;I love my parents and friends, that is true,And somebody else, when I’ve nothing else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
And now I’m married, and live in content,
And those I left behind me, I leave to lament;
I love my parents and friends, that is true,
And somebody else, when I’ve nothing else to do.
Nothing else to do, &c.
’Tis well to remember and bear in mind,A constant companion is hard for to find;And when you find one that is constant and true,Cherish her even if you’ve something else to do.Nothing else to do, &c.
’Tis well to remember and bear in mind,
A constant companion is hard for to find;
And when you find one that is constant and true,
Cherish her even if you’ve something else to do.
Nothing else to do, &c.