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Thread #60116 Message #960880
Posted By: Al Dente
28-May-03 - 07:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Children Have Quizzical Ways
Subject: Bickety Backety Book. Know this song?
Anybody recognize this lyric? It's a children's song, learned by my informant in the USA in the late 1930s.
A little boy read in a wonderful book
Bickety-backety-book
How faerie-folk dwell in a dell by the brook
Brickety-brackety-brook
O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
Children have quizzical ways
O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
And some keep them all of their days
He came to a man who was mending a hook
Hickety-hackety-hook
Poo Poo said the man as his finger he shook
Shickety-shackety-shook
O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
People forget they were small
O-lea O-lay O-loo-loo My Darlin'
They think they are wise because they¹re tall