The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15389   Message #805006
Posted By: toadfrog
16-Oct-02 - 10:15 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bonnie Wee Window / ...Lassie
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Sweet Little House Where Grandmother
I can remember part of it, anyway:

Oh Johnnie, oh Johnnie, I think it amiss,
Before going away just to give me one kiss.
"That I will Nellie," he answered her true.
To her surprise, he stuck his head through:

That dear little window,
That nice little window,
That sweet little window,
Where grandmother dwells.


............[missing here] la la la
She grabbed up the ladle, and a lick she gave one,
Another like that would have broke his backbone!

With his head through the window,
That dear little window,
That sweet little window,
Where grandmother dwells.


[More missing]
He ran down the road, with might and with main,
While around his shoulders the sash and the frame

Of that dear little window,
That nice little window,
That sweet little window,
Where grandmother dwells.




[More missing]
He ran