====== #403 - Tassels on Her Boots ======
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  *Composer:
    *Robert Coombs, 1863
    *from the [[:groups:opera|burlesque]] //Ixion (The Man at the Wheel)//
  *Also known as:
    *Those Tassels on the Boots
    *Tassels on the Boots
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
'Twas at a Fancy Ball,\\
I met my charmer fair,\\
'Midst Waltzing Swells and dashing Belles,\\
The prettiest dancer there,\\
I watch'd her while the music play'd\\
The latest Waltz of Coote's,\\
And fell in love, no not with her,\\
With the Tassels on her Boots.\\
Oh! Yes,\\
//spoken: //\\
Yes, through those little peep-holes in that\\
pretty white petticoat I could plainly see--\\
\\
//chorus: //\\
Those tassels on the Boots,\\
A style I'm sure that suits\\
Our English girls with hair in curls,\\
Those Tassels on the Boots.\\
\\
I watched her up the stairs,\\
Where we to supper went,\\
Upon those tassels on her boots,\\
My soul was so intent;\\
They asked me to propose a health,\\
Said I here's one that suits,\\
So fill your glasses up and drink,\\
To the Tassels on the Boots.\\
Oh! Yes,\\
//spoken: //\\
I meant to drink the ladies' health,\\
but I could think of nothing but--\\
\\
I ask'd this Girl "If I\\
Might call," she said "You may.\\
But tell me why you gaze upon\\
The ground in such a way?\\
You're sad perhaps, for life is full\\
Of very bitter fruits."\\
"O, no," I said "I'm looking at\\
Thosee Tassels on your Boots."\\
Oh! Yes,\\
//spoken: //\\
What is a more lovely sight when you walk\\
down Regent Street than to look at--\\
\\
I call'd on her next day,\\
And Cupid's cruel shoots,\\
Soon made me throw myself before,\\
Those tassels on her boots;\\
Now when we're married and we've got,\\
A lot of little toots,\\
I'll make them, whether boys or girls,\\
Wear Tassels on their Boots.\\
Oh! Yes,\\
//spoken: //\\
If I were to have fifty children\\
they should every one wear those\\
pretty, pretty, pretty--\\
\\
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    *Robert Coombs, 1863