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‘Seven foot Bible
At my head and my feet;
If my mother pass by me,
Pray tell her I’m asleep.’
N
Newell’s Games and Songs of American Children, p. 75, as sung by a little girl in New York: derived, through her mother, from a grandmother born in Ireland.
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It was on a May, on a midsummer’s day,
When it rained, it did rain small;