====== #1050 - I Don't want to Play in Your Yard ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Henry W. Petrie|{{search>"Henry W. Petrie" @cobs}}++ (1857-1925), 1894
  *Also known as:
    *Two Little Maids
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Once there lived side by side, two little maids,\\
Used to dress just alike, hair down in braids,\\
Blue ging'am pinafores, stockings of red,\\
Little sun bonnets tied on each pretty head.\\
When school was over secrets they'd tell,\\
Whispering arm in arm, down by the well,\\
One day a quarrel came, hot tears were shed:\\
"You can't play in our yard," but the other said:\\
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I don't want to play in your yard,\\
I don't like you anymore,\\
You'll be sorry when you see me,\\
Sliding down our cellar door,\\
You can't holler down our rainbarrel,\\
You can't climb our apple tree,\\
I don't want to play in your yard,\\
If you won't be good to me.\\
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Next day two little maids each other miss,\\
Quarrels are soon made up, sealed with a kiss,\\
Then hand in hand again, happy they go.\\
Friends all through life to be, they love each other so.\\
Soon school days pass away, sorrows and bliss\\
but love remembers yet, quarrels and kiss,\\
In sweet dreams of childhood, we hear the cry:\\
"You can't play in our yard," and the old reply:\\
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    *++Philip Wingate|{{search>"Philip Wingate" @cobs}}++, 1894

  *The lyrics were inspiration for by Saxie Dowell's 1940 song //Playmates//: \\ ++Lyrics:|\\

Playmate, come out and play with me\\
Come bring your dollies three\\
Climb up my apple tree\\
Climb up my rain barrel\\
Slide down my cellar door\\
And we'll be happy friends\\
For ever more\\
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Playmate, I cannot play with you\\
My dollie has the flu\\
Boo hoo hoo hoo\\
Can't climb your rain barrel\\
Can't slide your cellar door\\
But we'll be happy friends\\
Forever more\\
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