The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48851   Message #955622
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
19-May-03 - 03:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mama Buy Me a China Doll
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Momma Buy Me A China Doll
With our family, it was thus:

Mommie buy me a big glass doll,
A big glass doll, a big glass doll;
Mommie buy me a big glass doll-
Do, Mommie, do.

What shall I buy it with? (3x)
Do, baby, do.

Sell Poppie's featherbed.

Where shall your Poppie sleep?

Sleep in the horse's barn.

Where shall the horsie sleep?

Tie him to the riverbank.

If you don't hush I'll give you a spank!
(Child interrupts, yells, "DO MOMMIE DO!" and runs. Mommie chases, and if she catches the "baby," gives her a play-spank.

Jean Ritchie-Ritchie Family traditional song/game-Kentucky