Song Cycle by Leonard Rafter (1912-1964)

?. Old Skinflint

Authorship

by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962) , "Old Skinflint", from Whin, published 1918

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'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones 
See old daddy Skinflint dance in his bones, 
Old Skinflint on the gallows-tree, 
Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me. 

"Why do you dance, do you dance so high? 
Why do you dance in the windy sky?
Why do you dance in your naked bones 
'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones? 

Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me, 
Why do you dance on the gallows-tree, 
Who never tripped on a dancing floor 
Or flung your heels in a reel before? 

You taught me many a cunning thing 
But never taught me to dance and sing, 
Yet I must do whatever you do, 
So when you dance I must dance too." 

'Twixt Carrowbrough Edge and Settlingstones 
See old daddy Skinflint dance in his bones, 
Old Skinflint on the gallows-tree 
Old daddy Skinflint, the father of me.

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