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Bargery Number 128
Music (Given or Suggested) No tune given
Latest Date 1835
Evidence for Latest Date The Poor Law reform of 1834 removed the right of women to prosecute the father of a child born out of wedlock and get support from him.
Source of Text Bodleian Library, Firth c.18(225)
Roud V2136
First Line Now all you ladies fair, pray listen with attention
Comments on Song The social and moral inferiority of women working in factories is a common theme. The song bears witness to the profound social change brought about by the replacement of cottage industry by factory production.
Source Title The Flashie Steam Loom Weaver
Origin Broadside

Flashie Steam-loom Weaver

Now all you ladies fair, pray listen with attention,
It's the truth I do declare, that to you I'm going to mention
I was courted by a chap, a fickle false deceiver
Who has given me the slip, for a flashie¹ steam-loom weaver

Chorus: You all may know her well, by the description I do give her
               And she works in Kattein mill, does this flashie steam-loom weaver

She is not short or tall, but she is a little fattish
And she's what the people call, rather proud and pevish¹ (sic)
Gold earrings (sic) to (sic) she wears, with a necklace that he gave her
And she's full of ladies airs, is this flashie steam-loom weaver.

Now they say I'm getting fat, for my stays¹ I scarce can (missing word presumably 'tie') them
But there is a case for that, and my friends I dare not face them [Note 128.1]
If I'd send my brothers word, where to find that base deceiver,
They would send him home a bairn, to his flashie steam-loom weaver

Time and tide on none will wait, and the frost will try the pratties¹
I'll be even with him yet, he'll be brought before his betters
Half-a-crown² a week he'll pay, unto me for his behaviour [Note 128.2]
Or long he will not stay, with his flashie steam-loom weaver

To a nurse I'll send him out, if my child should be a laddy, [Note 128.3]
Untill (sic) he grows big and stout, and a sparter¹ like his dadgy (sic). 
Then wont I make him whack, his father the deceiver,
Who on us turned his back, for his flashie steam-loom weaver

There is one thing I do know, her own shifts² she'll have to make them,
And the wall wont get a blow, while she is there to take them.
And her uncle Mr Balls, he often must relieve her [Note 128.4]
She'll be out when the clubman¹ calls, on this flashie steam-loom weaver

So young lasses take advice, and the lads be sure to watch them,
But do not be to (sic) nice, and a husband try to catch him.
For once like you I thought, that my love was no deceiver,
Sad experience has me taught, for he's wed the steam-loom weaver

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