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by Unknown

Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

W’y, the Raggedy Man—he ’s ist so good,

He splits the kindlin’ an’ chops the wood;

An’ nen he spades in our garden, too,

An’ does most things ’t boys can’t do.—

He clumbed clean up in our big tree

An’ shooked a’ apple down fer me—

An’ ’nother ’n’, too, fer ’Lizabuth Ann—

An’ ’nother ’n’, too, fer the Raggedy Man.—

Ain’t he a’ awful kind Raggedy Man?