Classic Poem

All round the room I waltzed with Ellen Taylor,
All round the room I waltzed till break of day;
And ever since that time I've done nothing but bewail her,
For she's gone to Manchester the summer months to stay.

'Twas at a ball at Islington I first did chance to meet her,
She really looked so nice I could not keep my eyes away;
I thought that all my life I never saw so sweet a creature,
She danced with me three hours, and then she fainted quite away.

For seven long years I'm bound apprentice to the city,
Four of them are gone, and I've only three to stay;
But if she'll not have me then I'll go and ask her father,
I'll go and ask her father and I don't think he'll say nay.

All round the room I waltzed with Ellen Taylor,
All round the room I waltzed till break of day;
And ever since that time I've done nothing but bewail her,
For she's gone to Manchester the summer months to stay.