Flash Company - Offa Rex

Oh, once I had a colour as red as a rose

Now my colour has fade like the lily that do grow

Now my colour has fade like the lily that do grow

And if it wasn’t for flash company I should never been so poor

So you take this yellow handkerchief in a remembrance of me

And tie it round your neck, my love, in your flash company

Flash company has been the ruin of me and the ruin of me quite

If it wasn’t for flash company I should never been so poor

Now it’s singing and a dancing sure that is my delight

Flash company being the ruin of me and the ruin of me quite

Flash company being the ruin of me and a great many more

If it wasn’t for flash company I should never been so poor

Now you take a yellow handkerchief in a remembrance of me

And tie it round your neck, my love, in a flash company

Flash company has been the ruin of me and a great many more

If it wasn’t for flash company I should never been so poor

Now its all you little flash girls take a warning by me

And never build your nest, my love, on the top of a tree

For the green leaves they will wither and the roots they will decay

And the beauty of a fair young maid that will soon fade away

So you take this yellow handkerchief in a remembrance of me

And tie that round your neck, my love, in your flash company

Flash company’s been the ruin of me and the ruin of me quite

If it wasn’t for flash company I should never been so poor