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The Fiddle and the Shoes.

I had a fiddle which lay on the shelf,—
A beautiful fiddle, which played of itself,—
Jinkety, junkety, crambo;
And silver shoes, with lining red,
Which walked in the morning to my bed,
With a rumpety, bumpety, slambo.

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But early one morn, at break of day,
I found that my fiddle had walked away,—
Jinkety, junkety, crambo.
In the right-hand shoe my fiddle did go,
The left one carried my rosin and bow,
With a rumpety, bumpety, slambo.