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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.
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THE ELFIN KNIGHT—K

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Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes of England, 6th ed., p. 109, No 171.

1

My father left me three acres of land,
Sing ivy, sing ivy
My father left me three acres of land.
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy

2

I ploughed it with a ram's horn,
And sowed it all over with one pepper corn.

3

I harrowed it with a bramble bush,
And reaped it with my little penknife.

4

I got the mice to carry it to the barn,
And thrashed it with a goose's quill.

5

I got the cat to carry it to the mill;
The miller he swore he would have her paw,
And the cat she swore she would scratch his face.