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AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 3. LONGFELLOW, by                    
First Line: Fair the daughter known as mary
Last Line: Her pet lambkin following with her.
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)


Fair the daughter known as Mary,
Fair and full of fun and laughter,
Owned a lamb, a little he-goat,
Owned him all herself and solely.
White the lamb's wool as the Gotchi --
The great Gotchi, driving snowstorm.
Hither Mary went and thither,
But went with her to all places,
Sure as brook to run to river,
Her pet lambkin following with her.





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