 | Vauxhall comic song-book - 1847 - 238 pages
...all be, Tweedle twee ! For there's none so rare As can compare To the sons of harmony ! Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his pipers three. Every piper... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1847 - 432 pages
...by sundry glasses of enlivening sherry, he volunteered the unsaintly ballad of — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he," &c. &c. The blatant objurgations of the Wesleyan spinsters present, dumbfoundered the vivacious young... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says : — . . " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he 1 " , And was his dog proud because his master was called king? Here are questions to be proposed in... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...for me 1 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OLD KING COLE Music — at Prowse's, 12, Hanway Street. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. There was... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...nursery rhyme, of doubtful authority, and of which Halliwell's version runs thus : — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; Ho called for his pipe And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three ; Every fiddler... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says — Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ? And was his dog proud because his master was called King? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
 | Hymns - 1853 - 184 pages
...he. ' Then twee tweedle-dee, tweedle-dee, went the fiddler ; And so merry we'll all be. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, and he call'd for his howl, And he call'd for his harpers three. Ev'ry harper... | |
 | John Strang - Clubs - 1856 - 622 pages
...snow occurred on the 10th February 1795. monarch of Britain, of whom the old ballad thuspeaks— .. Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ! And he called for his pipe, And he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three ! '... | |
 | Nursery rhymes, English - 1858 - 362 pages
...LOCAL . . 299 EIGHTEENTH CLASS— RELICS . 303 INDEX . , . . ,317 FIRST CLASS— HISTORICAL. King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler,... | |
 | Charles William Jones - Readers - 1859 - 120 pages
...their churches. — CHUKTON'S Early English Church. LESSON III. THE SAXON SETTLEMENTS. " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." THIS is pretty nearly all that is known of the history of this country for some hundreds of years.... | |
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OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. 
