The Tailor and the Crow: An Old Rhyme with New Drawings

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                 THE TAILOR AND
                    THE CROW

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                  DRAWINGS BY

                L. LESLIE BROOKE


                   THE TAILOR
                    AND THE
                      CROW


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            The Tailor and the Crow:

                  An Old Rhyme
                     with
                  New Drawings

                      by
                L. Leslie Brooke

[Illustration]

                    London
         Frederick Warne and Co Ltd.
                   New York


[Illustration: To my Wife]


         _Printed in Great Britain._

                  COPYRIGHT
                     1911
         ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.




THE TAILOR AND THE
CROW


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A carrion crow sat on an oak,
  Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do,

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Watching a tailor shape his cloak;

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Sing heigh ho,

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the carrion crow,

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Fol de riddle,

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lol de riddle,

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hi ding do.

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Wife,

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bring me my old bent bow,

Fol de riddle,

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lol de riddle,

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hi

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ding do.

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That I may shoot yon carrion crow;

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Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,

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Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do.

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The tailor he shot

and missed his mark,

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Fol de riddle,

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lol de riddle,

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hi ding

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do.

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And shot his own sow quite through the heart;

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Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do.

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Wife, bring brandy in a spoon,

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Fol de riddle,

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lol de riddle,

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hi-ding do.

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For our old sow

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is in a swoon;

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Sing

HEIGH

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HO,

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the carrion crow,

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Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding

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do.





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