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Thread #99279   Message #1979505
Posted By: mg
25-Feb-07 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep
It sounds like I am a young man from the town of Kiandra..I married a woman____..with a weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle and rocking the baby that's none of my own.


When I'm at work my wife's on the rantan. On the rantan with some other man..

..for the by the Lord Harry if one you should marry she'll leave you with a baby that's none of your own.

Oh how I rue the day ever I married. How I wish I was single again. With a weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle and rocking a baby that's none of ;my own.

Now, what is interesting, is this song morphed into Whoopie tie yi yo get along little doggies..it's your misfortune and none of ;my own...
whoopie tie yi hyo ...you know that Wyoming will be your new home.

Jon Bartlett knows a song that shows the song that fits in between those two.

I heard this version was Welsh originally. mg