Dowlas is the name given to a plain cloth, similar to sheeting, but usually coarser.
It is made in several qualities, from line warp and weft to two warp and weft, and is used chiefly for aprons, pocketing, soldiers' gaiters, linings and overalls. The finer makes are sometimes made into shirts for workmen, and occasionally used for heavy pillow-cases.
The word is spelt in many different ways, but the above is the common way of spelling adopted in factories, and it appears in the same form in Shakespeare's First Part of Henry IV, Act III scene 3. The dowlas of the early twentieth century was a good, strong and closely woven linen fabric.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Hey girl
Where in the world
Did you come from
Hey girl where in the world
Do you belong
(I said)
Hey girl watching you
Walk is like a dream
Hey girl you got a nerve and
You sure got
As I wanted, singing lost and found
Like a fever running,
We could clear this
Town
(I said) Hey girl where in the world
Did you come from
Hey girl nobody knows where
You belong
So why don't you tell me
You're hanging above me
There's room
Everywhere
And I can't walk on air
Hey girl
(I said) Hey girl where in the
World
Did you come from
Hey girl never return cause you belong
I said Hey