Come listen to me story, it's about a nice young man,
When the militia wasn't wanting, he dealt in hawking twang,
He loved a lovely maiden as fair as any midge,
And she kept a traycle depot, one side of the Carlisle bridge.

Another one came a courting her and his name was Mickey Baggs,
He was a commercial traveller, he dealt in bones and rags,
He took her out to Sandymount for to see the waters roll,
And he won the heart of the twang man's girl playing 'Billy In The Bowl'.

But when the twang man heard of this he flew into a terrible rage,
And he swore by the content of his twang cart, on him he'd have revenge,
He lay in wait be James' gate and when poor Baggs came up,
With his great knife, he took the life of the poor old gather em up.