My Boy Hobby O
Lines:32Movement:Romanticism
Why were you put in Lob's pond, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)For telling folks to pull the House By the ears into the Lobby O! Who are your grand Reformers now, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)There's me and BURDETT,--gentlemen, And Blackguards HUNT and COBBY O! Have you no other friends but these, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)Yes, Southwark's Knight, the County BYNG, And in the City, BOBBY O! How do you recreate yourselves, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)We spout with tavern Radicals, And drink with them hob-nobby O! What purpose can such folly work, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)It gives our partisans a chance Watches to twitch from fob-by O! Have they no higher game in view, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)Oh yes; to stir the people up, And then to head the mob-by O. But sure they'll at their ruin pause, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)No! they'd see King and Parliament Both d--d without a sob-by O! But, if they fail, they'll be hanged up, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)Why, then, they'll swing, like better men, And that will end the job-by O!