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Thread #9770 Message #4213163
Posted By: and e
08-Dec-24 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Little Ball of Yarn
Subject: RE: Origins: Little Ball of Yarn
The Yellow Yellow Yorlin
It fell on a day, in the flowery month of May All on a merry merry morning I met a pretty maid, and unto her I said I wad fain find your yellow yellow yorlin Fain find your yellow yellow yorlin
O no, young man, says she, you're a stranger to me And I am another man's darling Wha haes both sheep and cows, that’s feeding in the hows An a cock for my yellow yellow yorlin A cock for my yellow yellow yorlin
But if I lay you down, upon the dewy ground You would not be the worse a farthing And that happy happy man, he never could ken That I played with your yellow yellow yorlin Played with your yellow yellow yorlin
O fie, young man, says she, I pray you let me be I would not for five pound sterling My mother would go mad, and so would my dad If you played with my yellow yellow yorlin Played with my yellow yellow yorlin
But I took her by the waist, and laid her down in haste, For all her squeaking and squalling The lassie soon grew tame, and bade me come again For to play with her yellow yellow yorlin To play with her yellow yellow yorlin
A de-Scotts version from the undated [1970] LP, The Earthy Side by The Movement to Preserve Scatological & Prurient Material in Its Original Form [Win Stracke and members of the Norman Luboff Choir].