One Fine Day
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight;
One blind man to see fair play,
Another dumb man to shout hurray.
Up came a nany-goat and knocked them through a nine-inch
wall,
Into a dry ditch that drowned them all.
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Rodger Lang Strang (1948), 18. Cf. some of the details
of the "Lying Song".
MS
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