The other week I was planning to lead What Shall We Do With The Baby O as a singalong at the break during a family dance. I checked Mudcat, trying to find some additional verses to sing, and was amazed to find no entry for it in the Digital Tradition. There were plenty of references to it in various threads, all of them assuming that it was a song that everybody knew, but no lyrics.

So here are the verses I know.

(Chorus)
What shall we do with the baby-o
What shall we do with the baby-o
What shall we do with the baby-o
He won't go to sleepy-o

Dance him North and dance him South
Put a little moonshine in his mouth

Dress him up in calico
Send him off to his daddy-o

Every time the baby cries
Poke a finger in the baby's eye
That's what we'll do with the baby-o
That's what we'll do with the baby-o!


What other verses do you know?