[PW] Poem?

[Rick Hart]

Hi all:  Here's my first try at Wombatification.  A patron remembers
having a poem read to her many years ago.  She says much of the wording
may be wrong, so it's a general impression.  She remembers it as being
in "baby talk", thus some of the spellings.
I's a poor little sorrowful baby,
Bridget is way upstairs.
My Mama has dot a new baby,
And dolly won't say her prayers.
 
No luck with Granger's, etc.
Much Googling on my part produced a number of children's games
(clapping, jumprope) that sound a little like it, but she says it's not
a game song, that it was read her from a book (of course, that doesn't
mean it wasn't a game song, I know).  Does this fragment of doggerel
ring a bell with anyone?    -- Rick, neo-Wombat
 
Rick Hart
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