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.