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Al Dente Lyr Add: Children Have Quizzical Ways (32) Bickety Backety Book. Know this song? 28 May 03

Anybody recognize this lyric? It's a children's song, learned by my informant in the USA in the late 1930s.
    A little boy read in a wonderful book
    Bickety-backety-book
    How faerie-folk dwell in a dell by the brook
    Brickety-brackety-brook

    O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
    Children have quizzical ways
    O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
    And some keep them all of their days

    He came to a man who was mending a hook
    Hickety-hackety-hook
    Poo Poo said the man as his finger he shook
    Shickety-shackety-shook

    O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
    People forget they were small
    O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
    They think they are wise because they¹re tall

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