What Rhymes With 'Farthing'?

[browngirl]

I have thought, ever since I heard this song, that if I could modify the first verse and the chorus I could make a saucy hobbit walking/drinking song out of this. Maybe a song for Bounders.

Away with the buff and the blue, and away with the cap and feather;
I want to see my lass who lives in hexhamshire.

Chorus
Off to the sabie skey and over the moss and the mire
I want to see my lass who lives in hexhamshire

Her father loves her well, her mother loves her dearer;
I love her better than them both but, man, I cant get near her.

(chorus)

If only I could be lying there aside her
While I must watch here my arms they are denied her.

(chorus)

Her skin is like the silk and her hair is like the silver
Her breast are deep and cool, theyll warm when I get near her

(chorus)

Of this love of mine, of this love I'm weary;
Sleep I can't get none for thinking of my dearie

(chorus)

Away with the parsons shilling and away with the cap and feather
I want to see my lass who lives in hexhamshire

(chorus)

Comments

[frodobaggins252.livejournal.com]

You can make an argument for using any word ending in 'ing' as a rhyme for 'farthing' -- check out this link for rhyming help:

http://www.rhymer.com/

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I guess; I want a slightly closer rhyme, tho.

Thank you for the rhyming resource!

[sage]

closest are anything that ends with

ärding

or

ärting


so...guarding the farthing? carting the farthing?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Your use of diacritically marked characters is truly awesome.

(Those *are* diacritical marks, right? Or did I munge my terminology?)

[sage]

*nodnodnod* They are. :)

Also, carving the farthing.

*has a rhyming dictionary at hand*

[vass]

...Halfling?

No, that really was the first word that came to mind.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

If I called the hobbits 'halflings' in a drinking song, they would come bite my knees. :D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

In the old "bells of London" song, the rhyme goes:

"You owe me five farthings"
Says the bell of St. Martin's.

'Course, in some English dialects, the word comes out sounding more like "farden" than "farthing."

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I had to look at this comment three times in order to read it; that icon is of the hotness.

Ahem. Thank you for the rhyme; maybe I can mention 'martens', the bird?

(And, thank you generally for your comments recently. I like seeing your name in my inbox, even if I haven't been the best at replying.)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the POTC doujinshi...I *finally* got a copy of that issue on eBay! ("Burning Blue," 14 pages, and Sparrow's paired off with *everybody* in little 2-page gag stories -- Norrington, Will, Lizzie, Barbossa...) I may have to scan a better-quality copy of that pic for the icon.

Understood -- always nice to be appreciated!