# MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.

A favourite Song, Composed and Sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. DIBDIN.

I was, d'ye fee, a Waterman,
As tight and spruce as any,
'Twixt Richmond Town and Horfley Down
I turn'd an honest penny;
None cou'd of Fortune's favors brag
More than cou'd lucky I,
My Cot was snug, well fill'd my Cag,
My Grunter in the Sty;
With Wherry tight, and Bosom light,
I cheerfully did row,
And to complete this Princely life,
Sure never man had Friend and Wife
Like my POLL and my Partner JOE.

I roll'd in joys like these awhile,
 Folks far and near carefs'd me;
 'Till, woe is me! fo lubberly,
The VERMINE came and prefs'd me:
How cou'd I all these pleafures leave,
How with my Wherry part?
I never fo took on to grieve,
It wrung my very heart:
But when on board, they gave the word
To Foreign Parts to go,
I ru'd the moment I was born,
That ever I should thus be torn
From my POLL and my Partner JOE.

I did my duty manfully,
While on the billows rowling,
And night or day cou'd find my way
Blindfold to the main-top-bowling :
Thus all the dangers of the main,
Quickfands and gales of wind
I brav'd, in hopes to taſte again
The joys I left behind :
In climes afar, the hotteſt war,
Pour'd broadſides on the Foe,
In hopes theſe perils to relate,
As by my ſide attentive ſate
My POLL and my Partner JOE,

At laſt it pleas'd His Maſety
To give peace to the Nation,
And honest hearts, from Foreign Parts,
Came home for conſolation;
Like Lightning, for I felt new life,
Now ſafe from all alarms,
I rufh'd, and found my Friend and Wife
Lock'd in each other's arms!
Yet, fancy not I bore my lot
Tame, like a Lubber—No,
For feeing I was finely trick'd,
Plump to the Devil I boldly kick'd
My POLL and my Partner JOE.