The chickens in the garden.
[Dundee] : Poet's Box, 182 Overgate Dundee,
[1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
'This popular song can alwase [sic] be had at the Poet's Box, 182 Overgate, Dundee'.
First line reads: 'I once did know a farmer, a good old jolly soul, / Who used to work upon the farm around his contry home / He had an only daughter and to win her I did try, / And when I asked him for her hand those words he did re[ply].
Ballads, English