Steal your watch and break your chain, Break your chain, break your chain, Steal your watch and break your chain, My fair lady. Then they must go to jail, Go to jail, go to jail, Then they must go to jail, My fair lady. —Belfast (W. H. Patterson). III. Hark the robbers Coming through, coming through, My fair lady. They have stolen my watch and chain, Watch and chain, watch and chain. Off to prison they shall go, They shall go, they shall go, My fair lady. —Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent (Miss A. A. Keary). IV. Hark the robbers coming through, Coming through, coming through, Hark the robbers coming through, My fair lady. What’s the robbers done to you, Done to you, done to you, What’s the robbers done to you, My fair lady? They have stole my watch and chain, Watch and chain, watch and chain, They have stole my watch and chain, My fair lady. What’s the price will set you free, Set you free, set you free, What’s the price will set you free, My fair lady? Half-a-guinea will set me free, Will set me free, will set me free, Half-a-guinea will set me free, My fair lady. Half-a-guinea you shall not have, Shall not have, shall not have, Half-a-guinea you shall not have, My fair lady. Let’s join hands, it is too late, ’Tis too late, ’tis too late, Let’s join hands, it is too late, My fair lady. —Tong, Shropshire (Miss R. Harley). V. Hark at the robbers going through, Through, through, through; through, through, through; Hark at the robbers going through, My fair lady. What have the robbers done to you, You, you, you; you, you, you? What have the robbers done to you, My fair lady? Stole my gold watch and chain, Chain, chain, chain; chain, chain, chain; Stole my gold watch and chain, My fair lady. How many pounds will set us free, Free, free, free; free, free, free? How many pounds will set us free, My fair lady? A hundred pounds will set you free, Free, free, free; free, free, free; A hundred pounds will set you free, My fair lady. We have not a hundred pounds, Pounds, pounds, pounds; pounds, pounds, pounds; We have not a hundred pounds, My fair lady.