ABSTRACT
Caroline Hughes spoke o f this song thus: ‘Well, years and years ago, hundreds o f years ago, the people had a struggle to get their living. Well, they used to go and make the match-sticks out o f wood and buy the brim stone to gilt the matches to sell ’em. Well, they gilt all the matches and sold ’em and they bought cham pagne and they got drunk and they never had no m oney to get no bread with, nor matches the next day-m orning. Well, in the trees there was a farm and they went to beg bread there. The editors have been unsuccessful in their attempts to trace this little song in any collection.
