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A Cat Came Fiddling (Sheetmusic)

A cat came fiddling out of a barn
With a pair of bagpipes under her arm.
She could sing nothing but fiddle-dee-dee,
The mouse has married the bumblebee.
Pipe, cat, dance, mouse––
We’ll have a wedding at our good house.

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A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds,
And when the weeds begin to grow,
It’s like a garden full of snow.
And when the snow begins to fall,
It’s like a bird upon the wall,
And when the bird away does fly,
It’s like an eagle in the sky.
And when the sky begins to roar,
It’s like a lion at the door.
And when the door begins to crack,
It’s like a stick across your back,
And when your back begins to smart,
It’s like a penknife in your heart,
And when your heart begins to bleed,
You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead indeed.

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There was a man lived in the moon
lived in the moon, lived in the moon
There was a man lived in the moon
And his name was Aiken Drum

REFRAIN:
And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle
And he played upon a ladle
And his name was Aiken Drum

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Ain't no more cane on this Brazos, my boys.
Oh, oh, oh.
Cause we done ground it all to molasses.
Oh, oh, oh.

When I came down here had a number for my name.
Oh, oh, oh.
Well they chained us together and we started cuttin' cane.
Oh, oh, oh.

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Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleep you little baby.
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses.

Black and bays, dapples and greys,
All the pretty little horses.

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Emily, James and Martin
In the heather on the downs
Cold December’s moon is waning
O’er the lights of Irish town
Here’s a pole star to guide you
Follow closely, don’t delay
The time is nigh, my children
for the breaking of the day

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In the great Ohio Valley
The old farmers tell a story
That their fathers told to them
All the way back to 1840
The story of a ghost
That sings above the rustling trees
And the farmers know the name for him
Johnny Appleseed

He was born John Chapman
And his brother was Nathaniel
From a farm in Massachusetts

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It's bad out there, it's scary.
It's scary and it's weird.
You thought it was hard but–
Well, it's worse than you feared.

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You beast, you
Be kind to the animals

Listen up, mates
Cause I can’t say it twice
You’ll learn that life has two sides
Nasty and nice. . . .

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Black stage
Hear me
Dancing shoes
Help me
Wooden floor
Tap me
Amazing light
Light up my
Dancing spot

Performance by Paul Austin Kelly
Words & Music by P.A. Kelly
From the forthcoming Walking Oliver CD, Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?

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My teacher says it’s good for me to ride my bike to school
She says I’ll get my exercise and exercising’s cool.
So yesterday I set off riding on my trusty bike
And after 30 seconds here is what I sounded like––

REFRAIN:
Cough, cough, cough!
Cough, cough, cough!
Cough, cough, cough, cough
Wheeeze!
Cough, cough, cough!
Cough, cough, cough!
Look out I’m going to SNEEEZE!
(repeat REFRAIN)

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Let me rap a little bit about the Big Bad Wolf
Because in chasing little pigs he made a big bad goof
You know it would have done him better to remain aloof
But his appetite was getting in his way

When he met the little pig whose house was made of straw
You know he never should have said a wolf was at his door
He could have said he was delivering a pizza, sure
But no, his appetite was getting in his way

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Oh, where have been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Where have you been, charming Billy?
I have been to seek a wife, she's the joy of my life!
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

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There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-O
B - I - N - G - O
B - I - N - G - O
B - I - N - G - O
And Bingo was his name-O

Performance by Paul Austin Kelly
Words & Music by P.A. Kelly
From the forthcoming Walking Oliver CD, Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?

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We've all got bones underneath our skin
Two hundred and six in our skeleton
It doesn't matter whence we came
Cause the color of our bones will always be the same

REFRAIN:
Two hundred and six bones in the body
Two hundred and six underneath the skin
Two hundred and six bones in the body
Two hundred and six, we’re all kith and kin.

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I glide as I ride in my boogy woogy buggy
I take the corners wide just see me drive
I’m an easy, speedy baby doing the baby buggy jive, Oh yeah!

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Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
The moon doth shine as bright as day
Leave your supper and leave your sleep
And join your playfellows in the street.
Come with a whoop and come with a call,
Come with good will or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A half-penny loaf will serve us all.
You find milk and I’ll find flour,
And we’ll have a pudding in half an hour.

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As I was walking down the street
Down the street
Down the street
A pretty little gal I chanced to meet
Oh, she was fair to see!

REFRAIN:
Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight?
Won’t you come out tonight?
Won’t you come out tonight?
Oh, Buffalo gals won’t you come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon?

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Seen’im peeking out from under Momma’s magazine
He’s grinning like a lunatic and looking mighty mean
He’s got a shell of iron and two wings of neon green
He’s the biggest ugly cockroach that I have ever seen.

I’m dashing to the closet ’fore ol’ ugly gets away
It’s where I hide my stash for keeping ugly bugs at bay
I’m flinging wide the door and leaping hot into the fray. . .
The only way to keep the peace is making pieces of your prey.

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A carrion crow sat on an oak
With a ling-dong dilli dong ki-ro me
Watching a tailor mending a cloak
With a ling-dong dilly-dong ki-ro me
Hey fa-lee fa-lay fa-lero, hey fa-lee fa-lero-lee
Up jumped John, ringing on his bell
With a ling-dong dilly-dong ki-ro me

Traditional, Arrangement and additional words by P.A. Kelly
from the Walking Oliver CD Paul austin Kelly/Unleashed on America



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Come all you Rounders, if you want to hear
The story about a brave engineer
Casey Jones was the Rounder’s name
Twas on the Illinois Central he won his fame

Refrain
Casey Jones loved a locomotive
Casey Jones, a mighty man was he
Casey Jone's final locomotive
Was the Cannonball Special on the old IC

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Ah, where’s he gone now?
Oh, no! Not there!
He’s jumped into the hedgerow!
Ooh, my Black Bear

How am I going to fetch him
Out of there?
It’s as thorny as a cactus
Oh, my Black Bear

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In a cavern in a canyon, excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner, forty-niner, and his daughter Clementine.
Light she was and like a fairy, and her shoes were number nine
Herring boxes without topses, sandals were for Clementine

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In Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes upon Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow
Crying, “Cockles and mussels! Alive, alive-o!”

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Dance to your daddy
My little laddie
Dance to your daddy
My little man

Thou shalt have a fish
Thou shalt have a fin
Thou shalt have a haddock
When the boat comes in

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I had a wife who completed my life
And the joy of love was flowing,
ever flowing through our days
While time has passed her sweet memory lasts
And the dreams that haunt me haunt the wheel
Where her white hands had played

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Said the night wind to the little lamb,
“Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb,
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star, dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite.”

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Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again.

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1.
Down behind the dustbin I met a dog called Jim
He didn’t know me and I didn’t know him
Down behind the dustbin I met a dog named Sid
He could smell a bone inside but couldn’t lift the lid . . .

Performance by Paul Austin Kelly
Words & Music by P.A. Kelly
From the forthcoming Walking Oliver CD, Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?

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REFRAIN:
Don’t talk to strangers
There could be dangers
Don’t talk to strangers
Just walk away
Do what I say
Better run away

Who dat man?
What dat man say?
You don’t know his face?
Then you don’t want to stay!
(repeat REFRAIN)

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Down in the Valley
The valley so low
Hang your head over
Hear the wind blow

Hear the wind blow, dear
Hear the wind blow
Hang your head over
Hear the wind blow

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Polar bear dreams of
Walking on crunchy ice
Eating lots of fish
Splashing in the sea
Cold and snowy North Pole.
She dreams of home.

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Every morning at 7 o’clock
There are twenty tarriers a-drilling at the rock
The boss comes around and he says, “Keep still!”
Come down heavy on the cast iron drill

Refrain:
And drill ye, tarriers, drill!
Drill ye, tarriers, drill!
Well, it’s work all day for the sugar in your tay
Down behind the railway
And drill ye, tarriers, drill!
And blast! And fire!

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What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
What shall we do with the drunken sailor
Early in the morning?

REFRAIN
Hooray, up she rises!
Hooray, up she rises!
Hooray, up she rises!
Early in the morning

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The eency weency spider went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
Now the eency weency spider goes up the spout again

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My name is Eileen Ogle
and I run a dancing school.
My name is Eileen Ogle
and my sister is a fool.

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I see you walking down the street
And give a little wave
You laugh and grin and then you fade away
Why do all the good things fade away?

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Why did you go away,
Fighting for strangers
When you could be safe at home
Free from all dangers?

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"What's 5 times 7?" the teacher asked
While on my chair I sit
Floating away while 5 times 7
Doesn't matter to me one bit.

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When the sun goes black
And the first quail calls
Follow the drinking gourd
The old man’s a-waiting just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

REFRAIN:
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the drinking gourd
The old man’s a-waiting just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

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A frog went a-courtin' and he did ride
Ding dang dong go the wedding bells
A sword and pistol by his side,
Ding dang dong go the wedding bells
Here's to Cheshire, Here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees
And here's to the lovely strawberries
Ding dang dong go the wedding bells

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Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal.
Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale, they say,
He was made of snow but the children know
How he came to life one day.

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As I walked out o’er London Bridge
One misty morning early
I overheard a fair pretty maid
Was lamenting for her Geordie


“My Geordie will be hanged in a golden chain
‘Tis not the chain of many
He was born of king’s royal breed
And lost to a virtuous lady”

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The Grand Old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
When they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only halfway up
They were neither up nor down.

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In come Daddy from the plow
In come Daddy from the plow
I want some dinner and I want it now
Groundhog!

There’s a piece of bread a-layin’ on the shelf
There’s a piece of bread a-layin’ on the shelf
If you want anymore you can get it yourself
Groundhog!

Performance by Paul Austin Kelly
Words & Music by P.A. Kelly

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If you’ve got just one note
And you know that it won’t do
But you need a way to make your music glow
You can take that one note
And you can make it two
Put one up above and one just down below
And see how the song starts to flow because

REFRAIN:
Harmony is the answer
You know two or three together can be so sublime
Harmony is the answer every time

If you and your best mate
Are feeling on the outs
And you just can’t seem to see things eye to eye
You could raise the crime rate
And give him a good clout
And before you know it you’ll bid him good-bye
Leaving you both high and dry, you know

REFRAIN:
Harmony is the answer
We were meant to be together walking two by two
Harmony is the answer through and through

BRIDGE:
We scream and shout and we dish it out
As we fight to have our own way
But if you’re wise learn to harmonize
And you’ll sing a brighter day

We’ve all got gray matter
Sitting in between our ears
And we all know that gray matter’s called a brain
It can bring us happiness or it can brings us tears
Do we give out joy or do we give out pain?
Leading us to this refrain, we all know

Harmony is the answer
In a world where disagreement often does hold sway
Harmony is the answer all the way