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Then where, O where, will the pigs lie ?
The pigs may lie in the washing-tub.
Then where, O where, shall we wash our clothes ?
We can wash by the river side.
The tide will wash the clothes away.
Get the prop and follow them.
—Sheffield (Miss Lucy Garnett).
VIII. Mother, buy some milking-cans, Milking-cans, milking-cans.
Where must our money come from ? Sell our father's feather bed.
[This goes on for many more verses, articles of furniture being mentioned in each succeeding verse.]
—Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy).
IX. Buy me a milking-pail, my dear mother.
Where's the money to come from, my dear daughter ?
Sell father's feather bed.
Where could your father sleep ?
Sleep in the pig-sty.
What's the pigs to sleep in ?
Put them in the washing-tub.
What could I wash the clothes in ?
Wash them in your thimble.
Thimble isn't big enough for baby's napkin.
Wash them in a saucer.
A saucer isn't big enough for father's shirt.
Wash by the river side, wash by the river side.
—Crockham Hill, Kent (Miss Chase).
X. Please, mother, buy me a milking-can, Milking-can, milking-can, Please, mother, buy me a milking-can, My dear mother.
Where can I get the money from ? Sell father's feather bed. |
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