And out it came the thin,

And out it came the bonnie heart’s blood,

There was no more within.

M

F. H. Groome, In Gipsy Tents, 1880, p. 145: “first heard at Shepherd’s Bush, in 1872, from little Amy North.”

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Down in merry, merry Scotland

It rained both hard and small;

Two little boys went out one day,

All for to play with a ball.