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Thread #585   Message #1063616
Posted By: GUEST,Jinx Christie Duke
01-Dec-03 - 08:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/ADD: I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
Subject: RE: I don't want to play in your yard...
Found this request posted from 1997. You probably already have this "stuff" by now.

1. Once there lived side-by-side two little maids,
They both dressed just alike, hair down in braids.
Blue gingham pinafores,stockings of red
Little sunbonnets tied on each pretty head.

After school hours, secrets they'd tell,
As they strolled arm-in-arm, down by the well.
One day a quarrel came, hot tears were shed.
"You can't play in our yard!" and the other one said:

(Chorus)
I don't wanta play in your yard.
I don't like you anymore
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down our cellar door.

You can't hollar down our rain barrel,
You can't climb our apple tree,
I don't wanta play in your yard,
If you won't be good to me.

2. Next day, the little maids each other miss.
Quarrels are soon made up, sealed with a kiss;
Then hand in hand again, happy they go,
Friends all thru life to be, they love each other so.

Soon school days pass away sorrows and bliss,
But love remembers yet, quarrels and kiss,
In sweet dreams of childhood, we hear the cry,
"You can;t play in our yard," and the old reply:

(Chorus)