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GYPSIES IN THE WOOD by ANONYMOUS

First Line: MY MOTHER SAID THAT I NEVER SHOULD
Last Line: SALLY TELL MY MOTHER I SHALL NEVER COME BACK
Subject(s): GYPSIES; GIPSIES;

My mother said that I never should
Play with the gypsies in the wood,
The wood was dark; the grass was green;
In came Sally with a tambourine,
I went to the sea -- no ship to get across;
I paid ten shillings for a blind white horse;
I up on his back and was off in a crack,
Sally, tell my Mother I shall never come back.




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