#403 - Tassels on Her Boots

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• Composer:
  • Robert Coombs, 1863
  • from the burlesque Ixion (The Man at the Wheel)
• Also known as:
  • Those Tassels on the Boots
  • Tassels on the Boots
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• Incipit: 334451335176666225515543321
• Condensed Incipit: 34513517625154321
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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—
  
  
  • Robert Coombs, 1863