Oh we knew that he was dyin' from the color of his breath And the flowers,they were droopin' in the mud And the doctor said to save our darling child from his death We must stop the circulation of his blood So we filled his head with glue,which we hoped would fill him through And we lay our darling Willie down to rest But the burglars came that night came by gosh without a light and they stole the mustard plaster off his chest Oh no more upon the mat Will he play with pussycat No more will he playfully bite her tail No more will he wipe his nose on the red hot kitchen stove For our darling brother Willie's kicked the pail My mother used to sing this song. She grew up in Michigan and Ohio in the 1930s. I have no idea where she heard it!
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