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HEIGH-HO THE WIND AND THE RAIN

(learned from Bill Handley in about 1958; an old English song from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)

When that I was but a little tiny boy,
    With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
    And the rain it raineth every day,
    With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain,
    And the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came to man's estate,
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
(refrain)

But when I came, alas! to wive,
By swaggering I could never thrive,
(refrain)

And when I came unto my bed,
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
(refrain)

A great while ago our play begun,
But that's all one, our play is done,
(refrain)

(from miriam berg's folksong collection)