[PW] Poem?

[Molly Wms]

It's here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=tg1RdndkFFwC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=%22dolly+won't+say+her%22&source=web&ots=hWRloUPJaf&sig=xdvjNd94oVD6RWccxQPA3_gHFpI&hl=en

or use this shorter link: http://snipurl.com/20z32  


~ Molly Wms.

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Rick Hart wrote:
> 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
> Forbes Library
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