HOW I LOVE TO LAUGH, OR THE YAWNER.
Sung by M. Grimaldi, in Harlequin and the Water Kelpe, at Sadler's Wells.

1
How I love to laugh !
Never was a weeper ;
Though, like a lazy calf ,
Have been a mighty sleeper ;
Once I got a place,
But lost it the same morning,
'Cause in my patron's face
I some how fell a yawning.
Yea, au, au, tol, tol, yea, au, au.

2
Then I fell in love,
Hoping to get marry'd;
Try'd my nymph to move,
And near my point had carry'd;
But I lost her in a pet,
'Cause going to kif's one morning,
Just as our lips had met;
Some devil set me yawning.

Yea, au, au, &c.

3
Now comes the worst mishap,
Once being shav'd so nice, Sir;
I gap'd, and M. Strap,
He gave me such a slicer;—
But all my griefs to tell
Would take a summer's morning,
So mum would be as well,
Least I should set you yawning.
Yea, au, au, &c.

Published Jan. 8. 1807, by
LAURIE and WHITTLE,

53, Fleet Street,
London.

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