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SAY

AYS t'auld man tit oak tree,
Young and lusty was I when I kenn'd thee;

I was young and lusty, I was fair and clear,
Young and lusty was I mony a lang year;

But sair fail'd am I, sair fail'd now,

Sair fail'd am I sen I kenn'd thou.

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ITTLE BO-PEEP has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,

And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

Determin'd for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind 'em.

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Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie;

When the pie was open'd,

The birds began to sing;
Was not that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?

The king was in his counting-house
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour
Eating bread and honey;

The maid was in the garden.
Hanging out the clothes,
There came a little blackbird,
And snapt off her nose.

OHNNY shall have a new bonnet,

JOH
And Johnny shall go to the fair,

And Johnny shall have a blue ribbon

To tie up his bonny brown hair.

And why may not I love Johnny?
And why may not Johnny love me?
And why may not I love Johnny
As well as another body?
And here's a leg for a stocking,
And here is a leg for a shoe,.
And he has a kiss for his daddy,
And two for his mammy, I trow.
And why may not I love Johnny?

And why may not Johnny love me?
And why may not I love Johnny,
As well as another body?

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LSIE MARLEY is grown so fine,

She won't get up to serve the swine,

But lies in bed till eight or nine,
And surely she does take her time.

And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey? The wife who sells the barley, honey? She won't get up to serve her swine, And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?

OM he was a piper's son,

TOM

Me he mad a play when he was young,

But all the tunes that he could play,

Was "Over the hills and far away;

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Over the hills, and a great way off,
And the wind will blow my top-knot off.

Now Tom with his pipe made such a

noise,

That he pleas'd both the girls and boys,
And they stopp'd to hear him play
"Over the hills and far away."

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