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Thread #80006   Message #1456421
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Apr-05 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Little Mr Baggy Britches
Subject: Lyr Add: LEETLE MR. BAGGY BREECHES
From the sheet music at The National Library of Australia:

LEETLE MR. BAGGY BREECHES
(Words, R. P. Weston. Music, Herman Darewski. 1915)

1. He was a fat little Hollander boy.
He was watching the boats going by.
Oh, my! Oh, my!
He was watching the boats going by.
She was a little pink Hollander girl,
And she said from behind with a sigh,
"If I can't put stitches in poor Yahcob's breeches,
Mooch better don dot I vill die!"

CHORUS: Leetle Mister Baggy Breeches, I love you!
If you'll be mine Sunday fellow,
I'll patch 'em mit purple, mit pink and mit yellow;
And folks will say as you lean on the old sea wall,
"Lena's been patching her Yahcob till he's got no breeches at all."

YODEL (OPTIONAL.)
Yah! Yah! Yah! Patches big, patches small.
Yah! Yah! Yah! He's got no breeches at all.

2. He turn'd and saw her and said, "Oxcuse me,
I was watching dem poats going py,
I'm shy. Oh, my!
'Cos you're laughing, and I can guess why.
I've got no mudder to sew for me."
Then she said with a tear in her eye,
"If I'm not offending ven they vant some mending,
Let me haf joost von leetle try." CHORUS

3. Trav'llers who come to the mighty sea wall
That keeps back the great Zuyder Zee
Can see, ah, me!
Some wonderful Dutch scenery.
It's Yahcob's breeches that they can see,
And, oh! he's as proud as a king.
When all of those trippers see teu little nippers
Lean over mit fader and sing, CHORUS