[PW] Lost Poem

[Hadden, Robert L ERDC-TEC-VA]

	See: Memories of Edna Smart Pearce by Laurie Gunn Everett at: 
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R. Lee Hadden
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:54:06 -0500
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Subject: [PW] Poem?
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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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Northampton, MA   fax  413-587-1015