There are, as idle gossips talk,
Five Obstacles to Tommi’s walk;
Because the wind may chance to blow;
Because it rain’d a week ago;
Because tis cold; because tis hot;
Because Mamma a fright has got;
Because he ails—she knows not what.
There are, as idle gossips talk
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Another [Glee].” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Nursery.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/594/16, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 5). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 280.
Publishing: Public Domain