The Word World War

PROPAGANDA

Propaganda the Word World War

You might think you sew your own hem

Don’t listen to their made up law

Think your own thoughts but don’t tell them

Nothing’s as good as they proclaim

Propaganda the Word World War

Don’t do this don’t do that don’t shame

You will not draw the things you saw

Faster than a hot rod race car

The bus driver inside of you

Propaganda the Word World War

Gets you back home before you knew

They’re coming to get you again

To take you smash you break your jaw

How can they see into your brain

Propaganda the Word World War

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Quatern - Thirty-Five

HICKORY DICKORY
Tickory tockory tick - tock
Hickory dickory dock - tick
tock tick - The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one the mouse ran down

Hickory dickory dock - tick
Tickory tockory tick - tock
At two o'clock the mouse ran up
Just as the clock struck like Big Ben

Hickory dickory dock - tick
tock tick - The mouse ran up the clock
Tickory tockory tick - tock
The mouse ran down so quick again

At three o'clock it did the same
Hickory dickory dock - tick
tock tick - The mouse sure got a shock
Tickory tockory tick - tock
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Quatern - Thirty-Four

THREE BLIND MICE - BA BUM
Three blind mice - three blind mice - ba bum
See how they run, see how they run
They're hiding from the farmer's wife
They've heard she's got a carving knife

To cut off their tails just for fun
Three blind mice - three blind mice - ba bum
It really really wasn't fun
If you knew half the things she's done

When she finds them - more than blinds them
And never mind the carving knife
Three blind mice - three blind mice - ba bum
She burnt them at the stake for fun

Their only crime was religion
Her father Henry rocked the boat
And Mary quite contrary joked
Three blind mice - three blind mice - ba bum
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Quatern - Thirty-Three 3WW CCLXIII

3ww
Baffle
Elegant
Negate

I'M WAITING FOR INSPIRATION
I'm waiting for inspiration
but the headache won't go away
I try to baffle it with words
Big words that you can write backwards

Like Wassamassaw or someplace
I'm waiting for inspiration
But time is running out fast now
The stats are messing with my brain

You can't negate illness for long
I've been in denial for four years
I'm waiting for inspiration
Hold the operation I'm scared

My headache is banging thuck thuck
I just want to go back to sleep
Elegant as Malayalam
I'm waiting for inspiration
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Quatern - Thirty-Two

THE OLD KING COLE QUARTET
The Old King Cole Quartet - dum dum
diddy dum dum - dum diddy dum
King Cole was a merry old soul
and a merry old soul was he

He often played his pipe at night
The Old King Cole Quartet - dum dum
dum de dum - with his fiddlers three
and in the middle of the night

And very fine fiddles they played
all three - all night de dum de dum
The Old King Cole Quartet - dum dum
de dum - and king Cole played his pipe

De dum de dum de dum dum dum
There's none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fidlers three
The Old King Cole Quartet - dum dum
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Quatern - Thirty-One

HUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One eye'd Jack and his cannonball
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's men to the rescue

Their horses and all of their might
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One eye'd Jack and his cannonball
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the King's horses came to help
And all the King's men he could call
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

Under seige you wouldn't believe
That such a big gun could falter
The oldest town would lose its crown
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
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Quatern - Thirty

PUSSYCAT
Pussycat pussycat - pussy
Oh pussycat - where have you been?
Pussycat meowed, and said out loud:
To London to visit the queen.

Pussycat what did you do there?
Pussycat pussycat - pussy
Oh pussycat - what did you there?
Pussycat meowed, and said out loud:

I frightened a little mouse - Meoww!
Up under the dress of the Queen.
Pussycat pussycat - pussy
You frightened a little mouse where?

Pussycat meowed, and said out loud:
Under her chair in the palace!
What's Queen Bess got under her dress?
Pussycat pussycat - pussy
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Quatern - Twenty-Nine

LITTLE BOY BLUE
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
You taste success with all you do
So tell the world that you've been born
Your genius goes before you

So tell the world that you've been born
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow - Ba ba
Moo - The cow's in the corn - thank you

But where's the boy that tends the sheep
Under a haystack fast asleep
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
To tell the world that you've been born

Will you wake him? No no not I -
For if I do he's sure to cry
To tell the world that you've been born
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
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Quatern - Twenty-Eight

NAUGHTY GEORGIE
Naughty Naughty Georgie Porgie
Up to no good in the closet
Georgie Porgie pudding and pie
Palaces princes paupers kings

He kissed the girls and made them cry
Naughty Naughty Georgie Porgie
And when the boys came out to play
Did Georgie kiss then run away

Georgie Porgie gorgeous Georgie
He did it with the Queen of France
Naughty Naughty Georgie Porgie
The princesses he did entrance

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie
He kissed the girls and made them cry
And when the boys came out to play
Naughty Naughty Georgie Porgie
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Quatern - Twenty-Seven

MARY CARR MARY CARR
Mary Carr had a little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow - ho ho
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go - ho ho

It followed her to school one day
Mary Carr had a little lamb
They say that broke the rule - ho ho
It made the children laugh and joke

Why does the lamb love Mary so
I heard the children cry - ho ho
Mary Carr had a little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow - ho ho

'Cause Mary loves the lamb you know
The teacher did reply - ho ho
Every State in The Union
Mary Carr had a little lamb
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Quatern - Twenty-Six

CRY BABY LULLABY
To catch a baby rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in
Cry Baby Bunting - cry baby
Baby don't cry - Daddy's back soon

Baby - Daddy's gone a-hunting
To catch a baby rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in
Baby don't cry - Daddy's back soon

Cry Baby cry don't cry baby
Baby - Daddy's gone a-hunting
To catch a baby rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in

Cry baby lullaby baby
Cry Baby Bunting - cry baby
Baby - Daddy's gone a-hunting
To catch a baby rabbit skin
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Quatern - Twenty-Five

PIGGY WIGGY FINGERS
Little piggy wiggy fingers
This small piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed at home
This little piggy had roast beef

And this little piggy had none
Little piggy wiggy fingers
And then this little piggy went...
Wee wee wee all the way home - phew

Piggy wiggy piggy fingers
Finders keepers losers weepers
Little piggy wiggy fingers
Pinky ring and middle fingers

On your left hand and your right hand
Now point out your index finger
It's the one next to your thumb - phew
Little piggy wiggy fingers
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Quatern - Twenty-Four

LITTLE MISS LILY
Just Little Miss Muffet again
She was eating her curds and whey
When along came a big spider
Who sat down beside her - they say

And frightened Miss Muffet away
Just Little Miss Muffet again
dreaming about what to do when
the spider beside her said boo

And up Little Miss Lily flew
frightened the spider would follow
Just Little Miss Muffet again
and hollered a hullabaloo

The spider beside her took flight
and frightened Miss Muffet insane
soon Little Miss Lily became
Just Little Miss Muffet again
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Quatern - Twenty-Three

SAT IN THE CORNER
Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie or Pud
He put in his thumb a little
And pulled out a plum diddle dum

Little Jack Horner the traitor
Jack Horner sat in the corner
And pulled out the deeds to a house
And said: What a good boy am I

The Bishop had sent him to plead
And to give the deeds to the crown
Jack Horner sat in the corner
And squirted the juice in his eye

Jack Horner sat on the jury
The Bishop - hung drawn and quartered
The king gave the house deeds to Jack
Jack Horner sat in the corner
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Quatern - Twenty-Two

JUMPING JACK
Jack jump over the candlestick
It's not a game it's daft insane
To work all night in this half-light
To make the lace for the master

So Jack be nimble Jack be quick
Jack jump over the candlestick
It's your turn next to take the test
You've got to jump and clear the beast

It's five foot tall and you're so small
You'll have to run close to the wall
Jack jump over the candlestick
And watch that you don't trip and fall

It's up to you quite what to do
It's not a game it's daft insane
So Jack be nimble Jack be quick
Jack jump over the candlestick
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Quatern - Twenty-One

MAD INSANE
Up and down again - left right left
right left - The Grand old Duke of York
they say: He had ten thousand men
He marched them up and up and up

And then he marched them down again
Up and down again - left right left
To the top of the hill and down
And when they were up they were up

And when they were down they were down
When they were only half way up
Up and down again - left right left
right - They were neither up nor down

T'was safe at the top of the hill
But down the hill was mad insane
And half way up was just as tough
Up and down again - left right left
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Quatern - Twenty

SIXPENCE
Singing songs of sixpence - sixpence
A pocket full of rye, four and
twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
and when the pie was opened up

The birds began to sing - sixpence
Singing songs of sixpence - sixpence
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish
to set before the king - sixpence

The King was in the counting-house
counting out his money - sixpence
Singing songs of sixpence - sixpence
While the queen was in the parlour

Eating bread and honey - sixpence
The garden maid hung out the clothes
a blackbird came pecked off her nose
Singing songs of sixpence - sixpence
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Quatern - Nineteen

ONE A PENNY TWO A PENNY
One a penny two a penny
Hot cross buns hot cross buns - buy one
This one that one two a penny
This one one a penny that one

Come on - Buy them for your daughters
One a penny two a penny
Buy them while they're hot and sticky
Your girls will love you if you do

If you've got no daughters buy three
Two for your sons and one for free
One a penny two a penny
Hot cross buns with lots of butter

That's why they call it good Friday
Ten a penny not that many
Roll up roll up for hot cross buns
One a penny two a penny
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Quatern - Eighteen

DOCTOR FOSTER
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain - complain
Complain - He went for a piddle
But then - He stepped in a puddle

It went - Right up to his middle
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
That puddle - Oh what a muddle
And never went back there again

Complain complain - complain complain
Was Doctor Foster a preacher?
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
Was Doctor Foster a doctor?

I've heard some say Longshanks was king
They say he was Edward the first
And that's why someone wrote this verse
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
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Quatern - Seventeen

ORANGES AND LEMONS
The bells of London town ringing
It sounds like they're singing to me
Oranges and lemons the bells sing
Ring-a-ding-ding from St. Clement's

You owe me five farthings ding-ding
The bells of London town ringing
Exclaims the bells of St. Martin's
When will you pay me - Old Bailey

When I grow rich ding-a-ling-ding
Sing-a-long the bells of Shoreditch
The bells of London town ringing
But when will that be - says Stepney

Ding-a-long-ding-ding the bells sing
I do not know - I do not know
Say the great bells of Bow - singing
The bells of London town ringing
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