Here's a timely ditty! Yahd Sale! (to the tune of Gloucestershire Wassail) © Fred Gosbee , Castlebay Music Yard sale, yard sale all over the town Go up in the attic and bring it all down Put it out on the lawn for people to buy You can dicker if they say the price is too high (may be used as a chorus) Here’s to the people from near and from far Who pull off the road and stop in our yard Who stop in our yard for an hour or so And leave us holding a bunch of their dough There’s a plate in that box that you really should get It might be the one to complete your good set You never know where you might find what you seek When they’re all selling junk but you’re buying antiques What is that thing that you’ve got over there? I think that I saw one just like it somewhere Back in the old days when I was a kid I never could figure out just what it did I found a guitar with only three strings A fife and a drum and some other great things A French horn, a fiddle without any bow But they just sold the bagpipes an hour ago Now here is a key without any lock It might go to this train it might go to that clock The train’s got no track and the clock’s got no chime and I bet I can get either one for a dime Look at these dresses, they’re all really nice And you never would find them again at this price The only thing wrong with them that I can see They’re too small for you and they’re too big for me. Now where is the girl with the little cash box Who’ll give us our change for the stuff that we bought This stuff that we bought but surely won’t keep ‘Cause we’re having a sale of our own just next week!
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