As I was walkin' down the lane on a door I chanced to knock,
"Have you any pots or kettles with rusty holes to block?"
"Well, indeed I have, don't you know I have,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I have."
Well, the Missus met me at the door and she bid me to come in,
Said "Hello, me jolly tinker, and I hope you brought your tin."
"Well, indeed I did, don't you know I did,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I did."
Well, she led me through the kitchen and she led me through the hall,
and the servant cried "The devil! Has he come to block us all?"
"Well, indeed I have, don't you know I have,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I have."
She led me up the stairs, me lads, to show me what to do,
And she fell on the feather bed, and I fell on it, too.
Well, indeed I did, don't you know I did,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I did.
She then picked up a frying pan and she began to knock,
For to let the servants know, me lads, that I was at me work,
Well, indeed I was, don't you know I was,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I was.
She put hand into her pocket and she pulled out twenty pound,
Said, "Take this, my jolly tinker, and we'll go another round."
"Well, indeed we will, don't you know we will,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddae, well indeed we will."
I've been a jolly tinker, now, for fourteen years or more,
But such a rusty hole as that I've never blocked before,
Well, indeed I have, don't you know I have,
Tell me right-fa-lor-a-laddie, well indeed I have.