FRAGMENT OF THE HAGMENA SONG.[202]
Reading edition
FRAGMENT OF THE HAGMENA SONG.[202]
As sung at Richmond, Yorkshire, on the eve of the New-Year, by the Corporation Pinder.
To-night it is the New-year's night, to morrow is the day, And we are come for our right, and for our ray,[203] As we used to do in old king Henry's day. Sing, fellows, sing, Hagman-heigh. If you go to the bacon-flick, cut me a good bit; Cut, cut and low, beware of your maw; Cut, cut and round, beware of your thumb, That me and my merry men may have some. Sing, fellows, sing, Hagman-heigh. If you go to the black-ark, bring me X mark; Ten mark, ten pound, throw it down upon the ground, That me and my merry men may have some. Sing, fellows, sing, Hagman-heigh.