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Thread #16883   Message #160625
Posted By: Fred Burns
10-Jan-00 - 12:16 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Skin & Bones
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN ALL SKIN AND BONES
Thanks to all for your replies. I should probably list the version I heard.

There was an old woman, all skin and bones,
Ooo Ooo Ooo
She took it in her head one day
to hear the parson sing and pray
Ooo Ooo Ooo
When she got to the churchyard style
she stopped to rest a little while
Ooo Ooo Ooo
When she got to the church-house door
she stopped to rest a little more
Ooo Ooo Ooo
When she got to the church within
the parson prayed and she did sing
Ooo Ooo Ooo
She looked up and she looked down
she saw a corpse upon the ground
Ooo Ooo Ooo
The woman to the parson said
"will I look so when I am dead?"
Ooo Ooo Ooo
The parson to the woman said
"you will look so when you are dead"
Ooo Ooo Ooo
The woman to the parson said
(shriek!)

Of course getting quieter and quieted on the last 2 or 3 verses.

Fred
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