The following are taken the preface of Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores and Biographies by Arthur Haygarth (1824).
Contents
Death and the cricketer
The Cricketer
The Game of Life; or, Death Among the Cricketers
The Game of Cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor’s School
Cricket Song
Floors Castle Cricketers’ Song
I am afraid I have no familiarity with the tune Dolly Dobbs, but this lyric does work quite well with that of My Old Man’s a Dustman, made famous by the celebrated 1950s skiffle singer, Mr. Lonnie Donegan. The chorus is particularly interesting, a kind of precursor to many of the Eurovision Song Contest entrants, especially that old favourite, boom-bang-a-la-di-dah-tish-tash-tosh.
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The Fine Old English Cricketer
Recitation. King Time, a Cricketer
