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ONCE THERE WAS A LITTLE BOY Sung by: James Clifton Ferrell Recorded in Memphis, TN 6/30/63 Click here to listen to the original recording Lived by himself, And all the bread and cheese he got, He laid them on the shelf. Well, the rats and the mice, And they lived such a life. Well, he had to go to London To buy him a wife. Roads was muddy, And the streets was so narrow, Well, he had to bring her home On an old wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrow broke, And the wife caught a fall, And the ground caught wheelbarrow, Wife and all. (Dr. Wolf: "Where'd you get those two?" Mr. Ferrell: "Man, I don't . . . I don't have no idea. They just . . . Now, Harry (?), my oldest brother, is the one I heard sing that 'Girl of Seventeen.' And I've been knowing that other all, ever since I can remember. I must have learned it when I was a kid.") |
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