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Thread #37757   Message #2914717
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-May-10 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Little Dutch boy (and Dutch girl)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE LITTLE OLD MILL (WENT ROUND AND ROUND
The Spotify link didn't work for me. Do you have to download something first? Or subscribe to something? Anyway, I was able to find a couple of other samples, plus there's another recording here by Sammy Kaye. Although the sound quality was very poor, I think I was able to get all the lyrics. (Note: the Sammy Kaye recording uses the present tense: "Tick-tock, tick-tock goes the funny old clock, and the little old mill goes round and round," etc., but I have used past tense to be consistent with the Joe Loss version.)


THE LITTLE OLD MILL (WENT ROUND AND ROUND)
Don Pelosi, Lewis Ilda, Leo Towers
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., 1947

I recall when I was small
A cozy nursery
With pretty pictures on the wall
As grandma sent to me.

A little Dutch boy and a little Dutch girl
Sat dreaming on a hill.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock" went the funny old clock
And the little old mill went round and round
And round went the little old mill.

Said the little Dutch boy to the little Dutch girl,
"When will you say 'I will'?"
"Tick-tock, tick-tock" went the funny old clock
And the little old mill went round and round
And round went the little old mill.

Down in the valley,
Grandma used to tell,
There was a chalet
With a quaint old wishing well.

So the little Dutch boy built the little Dutch girl
A chalet on the hill.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock" went the funny old clock
And the little old mill went round and round
And round went the little old mill.

[There was a Danish version called DEN LILLE RØDE MØLLE.]