Dance to Your Daddy (When the Boat Comes In)

Dance to Your Daddy is a traditional North East English folk song. A quick check on wikipedia claims the lyrics were written in around 1826 by a Newcastle lad. 



Of course I also remember it form the TV show in the seventies, 'When the Boat Comes In' which featured the original lyrics which seem to be all about drunkards.


You can see the original text in a reproduction of a song book featuring the song from 1842:




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