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Thread #45565   Message #674020
Posted By: GUEST,Heely
22-Mar-02 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: Help: Four and Twenty Ponies / Smuggler's Song
Subject: Four and Twenty Ponies
Help! Does anyone know the heritage or more verses to "The Smuggler" Song? My Grammy brought it to America via Australia from either Scotland or Wales. I think that it must be Scottish. It goes... "If you wake at midnight and hear the horses feet, don't be pulling back the blind or looking in the street. Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall my darling as the gentlemen ride by.

If you do as you've been told likely there's a chance, you'll receive a lovely dolly all the way from France with a gown of valencense and a velvet hood, a present from the gentlemen along 0'being good."