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Children's Singing Games. Ill 



And we must all die, 



Excepting (Polly Perkins), 



She's the only one, 



She can dance and she can sing and she can play the organ. 



Fie, fie, fie, for shame, 



Turn your back to the wall again. 



The one named turns her back upon the centre, and the game pro- 

 ceeds until all are in the same position. 



Here is a rhyme in which the characters appear to be in a 

 jovial mood : — 



The morn's the fair an' a'll be there. 



An' a'll hae on my curly hair, 



A'll meet my (lass or lad) at the fit o' the stair. 



An' a'll gie (her or him) a glass and a wee drap mair. 



Dowft in yon Meadow. 



Down in yon meadow where the green grass grows, 



Where (Maggie Tamson) bleaches her clothes. 



She sang, and she sang, and she sang so sweet, 



She saw a bonuie laddie across the street, 



He cuddled her, he kissed her, and bocht her a ring-, 



A feather for the kirkin' — a peacock's wing. 



Up the streets and down the streets, the windows full of glass. 



Is'nt (Maggie Tamson) a braw young lass ? 



Is'nt (Jamie Johnstone) as braw as she ? 



And when they do get married I hope they will agree. 



Agi-ee, agree, agree, and when they do get married I hope they 



will agree. 

 Six pair o' blankets, six pair o' shoes, 

 Half a yard o' moleskin to men' Jamie's breeks. 



The following appears to be the same as in " Popular Rhymes 

 of Scotland" with the exception of the first verse, in which 

 •' Blackberry bush" is substituted for " Mullberry bush." The 

 girls join hands in a circle and sing as they move round : — 



Here we go round the blackberry bush, 

 The blackberry bush, the blackberry bush. 

 Here we go round the blackberry bush, 

 And round the merry ma tanzie. 



