The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4400   Message #922896
Posted By: GUEST
31-Mar-03 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Go Home with the Girls in the Morning
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: GO HOME WITH THE GIRLS INTHE MORNING
I don't want your weevily wheat
I don't want your barley
I want some flour and a half an hour
To bake a cake for Charley.

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Take her by the lily-white hand
Lead her like a pigeon
Make her dance to weevily wheat
And scatter her religion.

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This is the version I know from my father. Note the similarity in the last verse to the Scottish tune Roses Up and Roses Down:
"Take her by the lily-white hand
Lead her 'cross the water
Give her kisses one, two, three
Cos she's a lady's daughter".

Susan Larson