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The only true Mother Goose melodies : an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition published and copyrighted in Boston in the year 1833 by Munroe & Francis ; (1905)

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 53

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Once in my life I married a wife, And where do you think I found her ?On Gretna Green, in velvet sheen, And I took up a stick to pound her.She jumped over a barberry-bush, And I jumped over a timber,I showed her a gay gold ring, And she showed me her finger. 40 … Ride a cock horse to Charing-Cross,To see a young womanJump on a white horse, With rings on her ringersAnd bells on her toes. And she shall have musicWherever she goes. Johnny shall have a new bonnet,And Johnny shall go to the fair, And Johnny shall have a new ribbonTo tie up his bonny brown hair.…

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