Yellow Handkerchief

So take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me
And tie it round your neck, my love, in flash company
Flash company, my boys, like a great many more
If it hadn't a been for flash company I should never a been so poor

For once I loved a young girl as I loved my life
And I thought in my heart I would make her my wife
With her white cotton stockings, and her high ankle shoes
And she wears a yellow handkerchief wherever she goes

So take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me
And tie it round your neck, my love, in flash company
Flash company, my boys, like a great many more
If it hadn't a been for flash company I should never a been so poor

For with fiddling and dancing 'twas all my delight
And in keeping such company it ruined me quite
It has ruined me quite, my boys, like a great many more
If it hadn't a been for flash company I should never a been so poor

So take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me
And tie it round your neck, my love, in flash company
Flash company, my boys, like a great many more
If it hadn't a been for flash company I should never a been so poor

For once I had a color as red as the rose
But now I'm as pale as the lily that grows
Like a flower in the garden all my color has gone
So you see what I'm coming to from loving that one

So take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me
And tie it round your neck, my love, in flash company
Flash company, my boys, like a great many more
If it hadn't a been for flash company I should never a been so poor