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VI
AND ANOTHER OF OUR BETSY—
Us childern's all so lonesome,
We hardly want to play
Or skip or swing or anything,—
'Cause Betsy she's away!
She's gone to see her people
At her old home.—But then—
Oh! every child'll jist be wild
When she's back here again!
We hardly want to play
Or skip or swing or anything,—
'Cause Betsy she's away!
She's gone to see her people
At her old home.—But then—
Oh! every child'll jist be wild
When she's back here again!
CHORUS
Then it's whoopty-doopty dooden!—
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
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She's like a mother to us,
And like a sister, too—
Oh! she's as sweet as things to eat
When all the dinner's through!
And hey! to hear her laughin'!
And ho! to hear her sing!—
To have her back is all we lack
Of havin' everything!
And like a sister, too—
Oh! she's as sweet as things to eat
When all the dinner's through!
And hey! to hear her laughin'!
And ho! to hear her sing!—
To have her back is all we lack
Of havin' everything!
CHORUS
Then it's whoopty-doopty dooden!—
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
Oh! some may sail the northern lakes,
And some to foreign lands,
And some may seek old Nameless Creek,
Or India's golden sands;
Or some may go to Kokomo,
And some to Mackinac,—
But I'll go down to Morgantown
To fetch our Betsy back.
And some to foreign lands,
And some may seek old Nameless Creek,
Or India's golden sands;
Or some may go to Kokomo,
And some to Mackinac,—
But I'll go down to Morgantown
To fetch our Betsy back.
CHORUS
Then it's whoopty-doopty dooden!—
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
Whoopty-dooden then!
Oh! it's whoopty-doopty dooden,
When Betsy's back again!
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