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Folk-Songs and Games with Descriptive Introduction, Notes, Sheeet music & Lyrics

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	52                        The Play-Party in Indiana.
	Miss Ethel Ballman, Versailles, gives the above melody and the following additional stanzas: Hay-o-my-Lucy-o, my Lucy-o, my Lucy-o, Hay-o-my-Lucy-o, my little Irish gal. I went to see my Lucy-o, my Lucy-o, my Lucy-o, I went to see my Lucy-o, my little Irish gal.
	Here Come Four Dukes A-Riding.
	a. Boys 1.	Here come four22 dukes a-riding, a-riding, a-riding 2, Here come four dukes a-riding, Tis a ma tas a ma tee.
	G iris           What are you riding here for, here for, here for? What are you riding here for? Tis a ma tas a ma tee. Boys           We're riding here to get married, married, married, We're riding here to get married, Tis a ma tas a ma tee. (J iris            Please take one of us, sir, us sir, us sir, Please take one of us sir, Tis a ma tas a ma tee.
	Bovs	You're all too black and dirty, dirty, dirty, You're all too black and dirty, Tis a ma tas a ma tee.23
	Girls	We're just as clean as you are, you are, you are, We're just as clean as you are, Tis a ma tas a ma tee.23
	22  Any number may be used but it is ordinarily three or four. 23  Weil known variations which are substituted for these two stanzas are: "You're all as stiff as pokers," and the retort, "We can bow as well as you, sirs."