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Thread #124244 Message #2743027
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
10-Oct-09 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: old time music hall song about a golly
Subject: RE: old time music hall song about a golly
A little more-
I've a little black dolly named Topsy Who doesn't like sleeping alone, For Topsy's afraid of the shadows, In darkness I'm sure there are none. But Topsy is only a dolly And doesn't know better you see, So I just tuck her under my pillow For I know she likes sleeping with me.
And when the sun shines in the morning I sing until I know she's awake. Then I take her right out in the garden And give her a bath in the lake.
Though I scrub her and scrub her and scrub her, I can't get her white like me. But Topsy is blacker than ever And shiny as shiny can be. So I'll just pop her under my pillow For I know she likes sleeping with me.
Taken from one of the versions on the internet. A couple of lines seem to be missing, the verses aren't even. I remember that it was in a children's story and rhyme book that I had as a child. No idea of author or age.