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Thread #11034 Message #3506968
Posted By: GUEST,Ian Ross
22-Apr-13 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One Two Three O'Lairy (Count Basie, 1940)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Two Three O'Lairy (Count Basie, 1940)
When I was a kid we had an LP of songs recorded by the ABC in the 1950s or early 1960s which included this one. Being an official recording, the words are probably a cleaned up version of the street songs but it went like this:
One two three a-lairy I saw little Mary Sitting on a dromedary Eating chocolate fishes
One two three a-lairy I saw little Mary Sitting on a missionary Eating jelly babies
One two three a-lairy My ball's down the airy Don't forget to give it to Mary Not to Charlie Chaplin