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7 He carried her on to the old deviPs door, There stood a little devil with a ball and a chain, And up with her foot and she kicked out his brains.
8 Nine little devils went climbing the wall,
Saying, "Take her back, daddy, she'll murder us all."
9 Got up the next morning, peeped through the crack, I spied the old devil come wagging her back.
io And jnow you know what a woman can do,
She can whup out the devil and her husband too. |
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SWEET WILLIAM
B. No. 1357. Fields Ward, Galax, Va., 1937. See "Earl Brand," Child No. 7$ Sh, 1:14 ff. |
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I It was in the merry, merry month o£ May, When the meadows looked fresh and gay, He hung his bugles around about his neck, And he went riding away.
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