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JENNY JONES 260 |
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Blue is for the sailors, sailors, sailors, Blue is for the sailors, and that won't do.
Pink ?
Pink is for the babies, babies, babies, Pink is for the babies, and that won't do.
White ?
White is for a wedding, a wedding, a wedding, White is for a wedding, and that won't do.
Black ?
Black is for the mourners, mourners, mourners, Black is for the mourners, and that will do.
Poor Jenny Jones is dead, dead, dead,
Poor Jenny Jones is dead, and lies in her grave.
—Southampton (from nursemaid of Mrs. W. R. Carse).
VIII. We've come to see Jenny Jones, Jenny Jones, Jenny Jones, We've come to see Jenny Jones, is she at home ?
Jenny Jones is scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing, Jenny Jones is scrubbing, you can't see her now.
[Then follow verses asking alternately " Is she at home ? " in the same words as the first verse, and answering that she is
(i) washing,
(2) ill,
(3) dying,
(4) dead ;
all of them in the same form as the second verse. Then the verses continue with—]
Jenny Jones is dead, she is dead, she is dead, Jenny Jones is dead, you can't see her now.
We'll come to the funeral, funeral, funeral,
We'll come to the funeral, and how shall we dress ?
You can come in yellow, in yellow, in yellow, You can come in yellow, that's how you can dress. |
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