Retreat to Leeds

DESCRIPTION: "I'll be down to get you in a tram car, honey, Taxis cost too much money... We'll go down to the Robin Hood... Go in and have a few... Tomorrow night when I roll into Leeds." They will dance and cuddle even though he has a wife and kids at home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
KEYWORDS: soldier dancing drink courting sex wife warning
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 134, "Retreat to Leeds" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #29418
File: Hopk134B

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