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Thread #20201   Message #210149
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
11-Apr-00 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Ratcatcher's Daughter
Subject: Lyr Add: THE RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER
Richard Dyer-Bennett's version ends similarly to that last one, as follows:

When Lily White Sands did hear this news
Both his eyes poured down with water.
Said he, "In love I'll constant prove,
And I'm blowed (blood?) if I live long after!"

So he cut his throat with a square of glass
And he stabbed his donkey after.
There was an end of poor Lily White Sand
And his donkey and the ratcatcher's daughter!

Doodle dye, Doodle Dee
Dah Dum Doodle Dum.