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Thread #50412   Message #2797240
Posted By: GUEST,Laura Waddell
27-Dec-09 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: today's the day we give babies away
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: today's the day we give babies away
My mother-in-law always recited the first verse
Today is the day they give babies away
With every package of tea.

At work one day my husband recited the verse and the Scottish gentleman that sat in front of him told him to finish it. My husband said he didn't know any more than that and his mother recited it when he was a kid and it always stuck in his mind. His mother was born in l901 and loved all types of poetry from the time she was a child.

The old Scott finished it like this...

If you know any ladies who would like to have babies,
please send them to me!