Ammon Wrigley - "The Royal Tiger Inn"
The following is a transcription of a work by Saddleworth poet Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946).
The Royal Tiger Inn
- At the Tiger Inn at Austerlands
- I oft sat down with friends,
- With old friends, with new friends,
- With good friends, with true friends.
- And oh, what nights we had,
- When every heart was glad,
- For there could never be
- A merrier companie;
- With every man in bloom
- ’Twas summer in the room,
- The old rush seated chairs
- Ne’er harboured men with cares,
- And drawn from out the wood
- The ale was ripe and good;
- And oh, the songs we sang
- Till all the rafters rang;
- What merry tales we told
- On those good nights of old,
- When winging hours flew to ten
- We shook the hills of Yorkshire when—
- We drank good health to all good men
- At the Tiger Inn at Austerlands.