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Thread #126943   Message #2825742
Posted By: Amos
30-Jan-10 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oh I wonder I never got married...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh I wonder I never got married...
I think the title is "A skimmer a dipper a ladle...", IIRC. I learned it long ago from the singing of (I think) Richard Dyer Bennett. These lyrics are from memory.

Oh I winder I never got married,
Hmm married, ah married.
Such a beautiful creature as I.

Oh, I'm willing to marry somebody,
Mmm, body, anybody,
__ __ ___ ___ (line forgotten)

With a skimmer, a dipper, a ladle,
Oh, ladle, and a cradle,
He sure shall have these when I die.

Oh, I wonder I never got married
Hmm married, ah, married
Such a beautiful creature as I.


There may be another verse, and I am drawing a complete blank on the closing line of verse 2.

Sorry I can't be more help.


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