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Thread #15389 Message #804987
Posted By: GUEST,aliciah67
16-Oct-02 - 09:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bonnie Wee Window / ...Lassie
Subject: Lyr Req: The Sweet Little House Where Grandmother
Burl ives once did a song called "The Sweet Little House Where Grandmother Dwelt" (I think) It was about a lass who lived there and her beau who poked his head through a broken window-pane and couldn't get it back. The lyrics start: A bonny wee lassie, whose name it was Nell, lived in the house where her grandmother dwelled. The house it was small with three windows no less, each having four panes, one needing a glass . . . ' Can't find it in Ives' collections.