Shan’t have any of my peanuts
When his peanuts are gone.
Miss Gilchrist informs us as to the relatives of tune and words in England. One parody familiar to her was:
John Wesley had a little ghost,
The color of it was white;
It used to swarm up his bed-post
And frighten him at night.
Another, known to Miss Gilchrist, was ‘Three Little Kittens’, (See JFSS, viii, 86). I also heard this song as a nursery ditty in my early youth in Monson, Maine, in the 1880’s. Compare ‘[Judgment Scenes]’ in this collection. The tune was used also for the carol ‘Joys Seven’, The Oxford Book of Carols, No. 70.
No. 228
[SOMETHING NEW], UHH 35
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)