He sits at the corner of Beggar's Bush Astride of an old packing case And the dolls at the end of the plank were dancing As he groans with a smile on his face la-la-la-la Come day, go day Wish in me heart it was Sunday la-la-la-la Drinkin' buttermilk all the week And it's whiskey on a Sunday His tired old hands from a wooden beam And the puppets they danced up and down A far better show than you ever will see In the fanciest theatre in town In nineteen-o-two on a sad day he died The song it was heard no more The three dancing dolls in the dustbin were thrown And the plank went up in the backdoor On some stormy night if you're passing that way When the wind's blowing up from the sea You may still hear the song of old Seth Davy That he groans to his dancing dolls three |
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