Pretty Peg/Craig's Pipes

When pretty Peg went down the street
 Some fresh fish for to buy
 But the wee town clerk followed after her
 And he kissed her by and by
 Chorus (after each verse):
 With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido
 With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-day
 "Oh how can I get to your chamber, love?
 Or how can I get to your bed?
 When your daddy goes to bed at night
 With a keen eye on his head?"
 "Oh go and get the ladder, love
 With thirty steps and three
 And put it to the chimney top
 And come down in a creel to me"
 "I went and got a ladder, love
 With thirty steps and three
 And a creel on the top of that
 And come down in the lum to thee"
 No peace nor ease could the old wife get
 With dreams running through her head
 "I'll lay on me life," said the gay old wife
 "There's a boy in me daughter's bed"
 Then up the stairs the old man crept
 And into the room did steal
 Silence reigned where the daughter slept
 And he never twigged the creel
 "My curse attend you, father
 What brought you up so soon?
 To put me through my evening prayers
 And I just lying down?"
 He went back to his gay old wife
 He went back to she
 "She has the prayer book in her hand
 And she's praying for you and me"
 No peace nor ease could that old wife get
 'Til she would rise and see
 She came on a stumbling-block
 And into the creel went she
 "Oh high I rocked her, oh I rocked her
 Didn't I rock her well?
 For if any old wife begrudge me her daughter
 I'll rock her into hell"