Subject: Lyr Add: THE FURZE FIELD From: Pete M Date: 01 Dec 98 - 06:40 PM When I was looking for something else the other day, I came across a book of songs I wrote down about thirty to forty years ago. I can't find the one that follows in the DT, so I thought it would could be my contribution. So far as I know its traditional by Anon and might redress the balance a bit after all the "modern" songs added recently (gripe, gripe :-)) I don't have any info on its provenance though. THE FURZE FIELD Oh I have a furze field my own dearest jewel Where all my fine pheasants do fly, And if you'll come a-shooting when shooting's in season Then I will show you love how to proceed: You bring your dog with you, your gun in your hand, All loaded and primed, all at your command. When the pheasants take flight, you must take sight, You shoot the next moment, you're sure to be right. Oh I have a fishpond my own dearest jewel, Where all my fine fishes do play, And if you'll come a-fishing when fishing's in season Then I will show you love how to proceed: You bring your nets with you, your rod in your hand, Your hooks and your angles, all at your command. When you throw in, all the fishes will play, It's down to the bottom love, that's the right way. Oh I have a warren my own dearest jewel, Where all my fine rabbits do play, And if you'll come a-ferreting when ferreting's in season Then I will show you love how to proceed: You bring your dog with you, your ferret in your hand, Your spade and your nets, all at your command. And the ferret will bolt, and the rabbits will play, For it's down to the bottom love, that's the right way. Oh I have a deer park my own dearest jewel, Where all my fine deer do roam, And if you'll come a-hunting when hunting's in season Then I will show you love how to proceed: You bring your dogs with you, your nag in your hand, All saddled and bridled, all at your command. When the deer they will prowl, and the dogs they will brawl, It's "Gee up then Dobbin" and back they will fall. Pete M |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE LUMBER CAMP SONG^^ From: Barbara Date: 30 Nov 98 - 12:55 AM Here, Dick, this one's for you. I didn't type in the extensive notes about lumbering in general, nor the description of Samuel Roberts' step dancing (apparently the kind of dancing referred to in the song). If you like that stuff, let me know and you can have it too. Blessings, Barbara
THE LUMBER CAMP SONG
Come all you jolly fellows and listen to my song;
At four o'clock in the morning the boss he will shout:
The next gets up is the choppers, whose socks they cannot find;
At six o'clock it's breakfast and ev'ry man is out.
"Crack! Snack! goes my whip; I whistle and I sing;
The next comes is the loader, all at the break of day:
we all arrive at the shanty, cold hands and wet feet.
The springtime rolls around, and the boss he will say:
The springtime rolls around and glad will be the day
Collected from Samuel Roberts, Sally's Cove, 1920. MIDI file: lumber.mid Timebase: 240 TimeSig: 6/8 36 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Teru Date: 27 Nov 98 - 10:40 PM Alison, I saw the thread. Thank you so much. Teru |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: alison Date: 27 Nov 98 - 01:28 AM hi Teru, I've put the tune for "the dear little shamrock" in another thread so it doesn't get lost in here. slainte alison |
Subject: Lyr Add: BAD COMPANY From: Alice Date: 26 Nov 98 - 09:00 PM From a 1934 cowboy songbook:
BAD COMPANY
1. Come all you young companions, And listen unto me
2. I had a kind old mother, who oft would plead with me,
3. I did not like my fireside, I did not like my home
4. It was there I took to drinking, I sinned both night and day,
5. I courted a fair young maiden, her name I will not tell,
6. So justice overtook me, you all can plainly see, ******* alice in montana
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Subject: Lyr Add: QUICKSILVER (Roger Gall) From: The Shambles Date: 26 Nov 98 - 08:23 PM Quicksilver
You still search for Eldorado
Quicksilver, runs in our river
With our old foes encroaching
Quicksilver, runs in our river
Witness the rape of our forest
Quicksilver, runs in our river Roger Gall 1995 |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: PILLS OF WHITE MERCURY From: Henrik W. Date: 26 Nov 98 - 04:41 PM Here's a song which I couldn't find in the database: PILLS OF WHITE MERCURY As I was a walking by the banks of the Ugie Come my dear friends and a story I'll relate I spied a dear comrade all dressed in white flannel Dressed in white flannel and cruel was his fate The mercury was beating, the limestone was reeking His tongue all inflamed hung over his chin A hole in his bosom, his teeth were a closin' Bad luck to the girl that had gi'ed him the Phlegm (flame?) Chorus: And had she but told me, oh when she dishonored me Had she but told me of it in time I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury Now I am a young man cut down in my prime My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided With those young flash girls do not sport and play But I never listened, no I never heeded I just carried on in my own wicked way [Chorus] It's down on the corner two flash girls were talking One to the other did whisper and say There goes that young man who once was so jolly But now for his sins his own body must pay [Chorus] Oh doctor, dear doctor before your departure Take all these bottles of mercury away And send for the minister to say a prayer over me So they can put my poor body in the clay [Chorus] Now get you six fellow to carry my coffin Six pretty fair maids to bear up my pall And give each of them there a bunch of red roses So when they pass by me they'll not know the smell [Chorus] And the ABC...: X:1 T:Pills of White Mercury C:Trad. S:Old Blind Dogs - "Tall Tails" D:Old Blind Dogs - "Tall Tails" (played in A) O:Scottish Z:Transcription and chords by Henrik Widell M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:180 K:G "G"G3G G2|"C"E2-F2 G2|"C"B3A G2|"D"F2 E2 D2| "G"B3B B2|"C"d2-c2 A2|"C"G3A B2|"D"A4 d2| "G"d3c B2|"C"c2 B2 A2|"G"G3G G2|"D"F2 E2 D2| "G"B2 B2 d2|"C"d2 c2 A2|"D"D2 G2 F2|"G"G4z2|"G"z6:| Some 100-150 years ago, mercury was used as a cure for syphilis. Well, it might have cured the syphilis, but it probably killed the victim... Anyway, there is a similar song in the DT database, called "The unfortunate lass", which has similar words, but a female victim. Also, the tune is different, but it could be sung to the above melody, I think. Finally, for those interested in geography, Ugie is river that runs just north of Peterhead in North-East Scotland. Cheers Henrik |
Subject: Tune Add: HOME BY BEARNA From: Henrik W. Date: 26 Nov 98 - 04:26 PM I noticed that the tune for "Home by Bearna" is missing from the database, so here it is (in ABC format): X:1 T:HOME BY BEARNA C:Trad. A:Kerry D:Home by Bearna: Christy Moore - "Whatever tickles your fancy" O:Irish M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:1/4=160 K:Dm D|"Dm"D2DF2G|A2dc2A|"C"G2Ac2E|E2DC3| "Dm"D2 DF2G|A2d c2 A|"C"G2A c2 E|"Dm"D3D2A| "Dm"A2d d2 e|d2cA2=B|"C"c2dc2A|G2Ac2A| "Dm"A2d d2 e|d2cA3|"C"G2Ec2E|"Dm" D3D2|] By the way, Bearna is an area in North Kerry, Ireland, about 10 miles from Castleisland - it's a beautiful place on the side of a valley (or so I'm told). Scartaglen is a village nearby, which nowadays apparently consists of a church, a graveyard, a mechanic and five pubs. For those interested in the meaning of these names - bearna means "a gap [in a mountain]" and Scartaglen means "the thicket of the glen". There's more to come in a little while... Cheers, Henrik |
Subject: Lyr Add: MATCH IN THE GAS TANK, BOOM, BOOM! From: BSeed Date: 26 Nov 98 - 04:10 AM This is a song I learned in church camps around fifty years ago. It's the same kind of thing as Hole in the Bottom of the Sea, Old MacDonald's Farm, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly--any of those songs where the verses keep piling up... MATCH IN THE GAS TANK, BOOM, BOOM!
There was a little girl, the cutest little girl, The sweetest little girl that you ever did see. The girl was on the seat, the seat was in the Ford, The Ford was on the wheels, the wheels were on the ground, And the motor in the Ford made the wheels go round. Match in the gas tank, boom, boom! At one time, the song may have begun with the Ford, but by the time I learned it, the girl was the standard starting point. The tune is similar to Old MacDonald's Farm; the "match in the gas tank, boom, boom," is the same as "Shave and a haircut, six-bits." |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: HI FOR THE BEGGARMAN From: John in Brisbane Date: 25 Nov 98 - 07:04 PM Lyrics for Hi For The Beggarman to match the tune sent yesterday:
Regards
HI FOR THE BEGGARMAN MIDI file: hibeg_nu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 2/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: BSeed Date: 25 Nov 98 - 03:41 AM "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago," although also from the point of view of someone who, who--so to say--was born about ten thousand years ago, is a very different song, just a brag. "Passing Through" has a strong theme which "Born," and the similar "Great Historical Bum" both lack, that of a common humanity shared by a race of mortal beings (unlike the narrators of all the songs, who go from era to era). Another difference: the narrator in "Passing Through" is an observer, not a heroic participant. The heroes are the mortals. (And "Just the Facts, Ma'am" is a melding of "Born" and "Bum," and is usually performed as a duet, a pair of competing liars. The alternating verses are sung to different melodies. --seed |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN From: John in Brisbane Date: 25 Nov 98 - 03:13 AM Joe, please forgive me if I post a few tunes in this one reply, but my systems are misbehaving. Hi For The Beggarman
Could not find this at all in the DT, will post the lyrics tomorrow.
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN
No tune in DT.
Until It's Time For You To Go
No tune in DT.
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN
MIDI file: troub_nu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 2/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
Until It's Time For You To Go
MIDI file: until_nu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Date: 25 Nov 98 - 12:52 AM The song/narration is known by various titles for some unknown reason....??? copyright, perhaps and is in the data base under the following titles! I WAS BORN ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO * HERE * PASSING THROUGH * HERE * JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM * HERE *
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: BSeed Date: 24 Nov 98 - 09:59 PM Su, u might as well truncate shu and blu and gru, tru? --seed |
Subject: Lyr Add: SHE LIVED BESIDE THE ANNER From: Alice Date: 24 Nov 98 - 09:39 PM SHE LIVED BESIDE THE ANNER Irish, from the verses by Charles Joseph Kickham (1826-1882) collected by Herbert Hughes, Irish Country Songs, Vol.4
She lived beside the Anner at the foot of Slievenaman,
How pleasant was to meet her on Sunday when the bell
Ah, cold and well nigh callous this weary heart has grown ------- alice in montana
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE DEAR LITTLE SHAMROCK (Andrew Cherry) From: Teru Date: 24 Nov 98 - 06:36 PM There have been so many lyrics already, but I should like to send them a very pretty Irish song I love. I am sorry I cannot send the tune.
THE DEAR LITTLE SHAMROCK
1. There's a dear little plant that grows in our Isle,
CHORUS The dear little Shamrock, the sweet little Shamrock,
2. That dear little plant still grows in our land,
3. That dear little plant that springs from our soil, Merry Christmas! Teru |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Susan of DT Date: 24 Nov 98 - 05:58 PM Seed: see Passing Thru. I think "through" should be always be truncated. |
Subject: Tune Add: DID SHE MENTION MY NAME? From: John in Brisbane Date: 24 Nov 98 - 03:15 AM Did She Mention My Name? Tune not in DT.
MIDI file: didshenu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: Tune Add: EARLY MORNING RAIN From: John in Brisbane Date: 24 Nov 98 - 03:12 AM Early Morning Rain - no tune in DT.
MIDI file: okie_nu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: Tune Add: OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE From: John in Brisbane Date: 24 Nov 98 - 03:09 AM Couldn't open a new thread, I'm getting errors all over the place, so thought I'd try this one. Here's another classic with the tune missing from the DT. Regards John
MIDI file: okie_nu.mid Timebase: 120 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: Lyr Add: PASSING THROUGH^^^ From: BSeed Date: 23 Nov 98 - 03:32 AM I was a bit surprised not to find this song in the database, despite entering it by [name] and several [key phrase] checks: PASSING THROUGH I saw Adam leave the garden with a suitcase in his hand, I said "Now you're out, what are you gonna do?" "Plant some crops and pray for rain, Maybe raise a little Cain, I'm an orphan and I'm only passing through." Chorus: Passing through, passing through, Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, Glad that I ran into you, Tell the people that you saw me passing through.
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Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: LULLABY (Anne Lister) From: Barbara Date: 23 Nov 98 - 01:27 AM Here's a more modern Lullaby for your collection, from Anne Lister's CD, Flame in Avalon. Blessings, Barbara
LULLABY
CHORUS:
In all of the stories whenever you're crying
There's always a way to win through to the treasure
Chorus
Hold on to the hand of your sister or brother
Chorus MIDI file: lulaby.mid Timebase: 240 TimeSig: 6/8 36 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Bert Date: 20 Nov 98 - 04:49 PM My Mother used to sing this. Don't know if there is any more to it... I wakes him nice and early when the clock strikes eight, I am always punctual, never, never late, with a nice cup of tea, a little round of toast, The Sporting Life and The Winning Post. I makes him nice and cozy then I toddles off to work. I do the best I can. I'm only doing what a woman should do, 'cos he's only a working man. |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: John in Brisbane Date: 18 Nov 98 - 08:16 PM Well done Wolfgang, and thanks for the kind words. Perhaps by Christmas next year I can start producing them by ear - well at least that's my aim. Subject to Dick's consent I think that there's another simple way we can make a lasting contribution to the DT, and it doesn't require any fandangles to do it. There are a huge number of songs in the DT with no tune attributed to them - we all know that! But there is also a large number of songs where the tune DOES exist elsewhere in the DT, but there is no link to them. This is often true where more than one version of the song is given, where the song is a parody of another (perhaps) well known song, or where it was initially thought that the tune would be self evident to future readers. (A foreign pagan like me has only a vague idea as to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers - must admit I haven't looked for it in the database). This may end up being a pain in the bum for Dick, so I'll stop short of giving some ideas as to making it happen. Wouldn't want to see a Christmas gift turn into a New Year nightmare. Regards John IMHO by far the easiest way to search the DT is using the downloadable database. It is DOS based but stunningly quick and powerful ... and fun. Regards John
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Subject: Lyr Add: AT IT AGAIN (Andy M. Stewart) From: Susan-Marie Date: 18 Nov 98 - 12:03 PM One of my favorite Andy M. Stewart songs (sorry there's no tune but you really need to hear him sing it): AT IT AGAIN - Andy M. Stewart
Though Geordie's a man I hav'ny seen lately
chorus:
I asked him "Is Geordie still makin good whiskey"
Geordie's the lad for courtin the ladies
I remember when Geordie discovered the horses
The Bailiff caught Geordie doon poachin the salmon copyright 1990 Green Linnet Records |
Subject: Lyr Add: COME INSIDE From: Bert Date: 18 Nov 98 - 11:17 AM Not very PC but... COME INSIDE I was outside a lunatic asylum one day, busy picking up stones When along came a lunatic and said to me, "Good morning Mr. Jones, Oh, how much a week do you get for doing that", "Thirty bob I cried" "What, thirty bob a week, with a wife and kids to keep? Come inside you silly bugger come inside" "Come inside you silly bugger come inside, you ought to have a bit more sense. Working for your living, take my tip, act a little screwy and become a lunatic. Oh you get your meals most regular and a brand new suit besides. What's thirty bob a week with a wife and kids to keep. Come inside you silly bugger come inside." |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Wolfgang Date: 18 Nov 98 - 10:33 AM Glad to be helpful, Dick, but what is this compared to what John in Brisbane does every week? Maybe Christmas next year I'll be able to send not just photocopies (leaving the largest part of the work to others) but actual tunes. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: dick greenhaus Date: 12 Nov 98 - 07:08 PM Well, Christmas is coming early this year. I just received a package from Wolfgang Hell cosisting of some three pounds (1.5 kilos?) of Xeroxed tunes to songs in the DT that don't have music! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! (Maybe Thanksgiving is more appropriate) Wolfgang, you're wonderful!
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Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 98 - 11:24 AM Are there any song lyrics (or tunes) you are desperately seeking, Susan? (sorry, Susan, I couldn't resist getting that phrase in... just too tempting)
Do you have a wish list for additions to the DT? alice in montana |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Jon Bartlett Date: 11 Nov 98 - 04:25 AM If someone gave *me* a pressie for Xmas I wouldn't peek, so what are Susan and Dick doing on this thread? Good on yer both, and here's a wee thing I heard just the once from Alex Campbell of glorious memory:
Well, I wished I was a rock sittin' on a hill, Jon the offsider |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DEVIL AND THE BAILIFF From: Big Mick Date: 10 Nov 98 - 11:46 PM Dick and Susan, Greetings from one of your most devout worshippers. I hope this finds you and yours in good health and wish you all the best during this season and the new year.
THE DEVIL AND THE BAILIFF |
Subject: Lyr Add: TO SING THE BLUES From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 10 Nov 98 - 09:44 PM TO SING THE BLUES
Lived alone for so long,
CHO:
Evil women, nasty wine,
(Bridge)
Big ol' bankroll fat and round,
by Roger Himler and Charles Kennedy May your holidays be blessed. Thanks Dick and Susan! Roger in Baltimore |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: dick greenhaus Date: 10 Nov 98 - 08:16 PM Thanx! I'm touched! (Or is that tetched?) |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Alice Date: 10 Nov 98 - 05:53 PM Thanks Bill, I am working on Country Lassie, Tam Glenn, The Winter It Is Past, and Charlie He's My Darling, for Robert Burns day... just had a practice this afternoon with the violin accompanist. Some of the interesting odd ways of turning a tune make the Scottish songs really unique. alice |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Susan of DT Date: 10 Nov 98 - 05:45 PM THANX GUYS! YOU'RE ALL THE GREATEST. |
Subject: RE: Christmas gift for Susan & Dick. From: Bill D Date: 10 Nov 98 - 03:13 PM Alice...thank you..I have a friend who sings "Country Lassie"...she does it so beautifully it almost makes me weep, and I never before had the words on front of me. (I use that song as a paradigm of 'songs I simply am unable to sing'...it strikes me as terribly difficuly to do that tune well) now I shall have to go find a song to add that equals it. *big smile* |
Subject: Lyr Add: OLD STEPSTONE and THE OLD DOOR STEP From: Dale Rose Date: 10 Nov 98 - 02:56 PM One thing about it, they won't have to dig through threads to find these! Here is another from the singing of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973) of Mars Hill, North Carolina, near Asheville.
I have three recording of the song, and have heard two others live.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Old Stepstone) Smithsonian Folkways CD 40082, 1996 (recorded in 1949)
Walt Michael, an excellent hammer dulcimer player performs it, as does Harmony, a group from Stone County, Arkansas~~they just call it Stepstone, by the way.
From the excellent notes on Smithsonian Folkways:
Oh, 'tis sad to be parted from those that we love
Chorus
Goodbye dear old stepstone, goodbye to my home
I stood on my doorstep at evening and morn
Chorus
I stood on my doorstep when school time was o'er
Chorus
Well, now that I am done with that, I find that it is in Levy, so here is the original, words by A. J. Crider, music by Geo. B. Chase, 1880, The Old Door Step (title #5!) The version by Ernest Stoneman is easily the closest to this text, with only minor variations. Jane Voss switches things around quite a bit, but it is a nice sounding version all the same. The variation in Lunsford's version is easily accounted for. Though the song was written in 1880, he learned an oral version in 1904, then did not record it until 1949, making it pretty far from the original in time as well as text.
THE OLD DOOR STEP
Chorus
It is hard to be parted from those that we love,
Chorus
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Subject: Lyr Add: COUNTRY LASSIE (Robert Burns) From: Alice Date: 10 Nov 98 - 10:16 AM COUNTRY LASSIE by Robert Burns
In simmer, when the hay was mawn
'It's ye hae wooers monie ane, [many a one]
'For Johnie o' the Buskie-Glen
O thoughtless lassie, life's a faught! [fight]
'O, gear will buy me rigs [ridges] o land, ------ alice in montana
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE COUNTRY VICAR From: Bert. Date: 10 Nov 98 - 09:18 AM Branch from 'Christmas gifts' thread. Everyone! try to post a new song. Check to make sure it's not already in DT. Here's a start. A bawdy one from memory. THE COUNTRY VICAR There once was a country vicar who said to his curate John, "I bet I've had more women than you" and the curate said "You're on! You're on!" and the curate said "you're on!" "Tomorrow outside the church we'll stand and this shall be the sign" "You ding-a-ding for the women you've had, and I'll ding-a-dong for mine, for mine and I'll ding-a-dong for mine". There were more ding-a-dings than ding-a-dong dongs 'till a pretty young maid walked by and the curate went ding-dong "Ah", said the vicar "Don't ding-a-dong there that's my wife I do declare" "Well" said the curate "I don't care" with a ding-a ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong with a ding-a ding-a ding-a ding-dong. |
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