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QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by                    
First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart"
Last Line: Queen victoria's baby
Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery


Oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart,
And tell you a very singular start,
That lately occurred at Buckingham Palace,
That scene of waste, confusion, and malice,
About the baby, the dear little baby --
Queen Victoria's baby!

About one in the morn, as I heard say,
The Queen she felt in a curious way --
She woke her husband, who said with great sorrow,
"Oh! can't you, my love, put it off till to-morrow?
For I am so sleepy, and I don't want a baby!"
"Ah!" says she, "but I will have a baby!"

* * *

Then there was great bustle, confusion, and hurry,
The Queen was in labour -- the Prince in a flurry;
When the Princess was born the nurse loud did shout --
"Little girl, does your mother know you are out?"
Oh, oh! little baby, etc.

* * *

Now the Queen has recovered, and Albert's the nurse
He puts on the child's napkins, and don't care one curse;
And ladies and gentlemen, your smiles give to me,
'Twas to gain your applause I sung, d'ye see,
About the Queen's baby, the duck of a baby,
Queen Victoria's baby!





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