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