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The British “halfpenny” was known as “ha’penny” (pronounced HAY-penny / heɪpni), minted between 1672 and 1967. (source)
Lyrics
(English folk song)
Christmas is coming! The goose is getting fat!
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat.
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat.
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do.
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you.
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you.
See also
- Country: England
- Subject: Christmas
- Harmony: canons / Orff arrangements / one chord
- Melody: tonic triad
- Meter: 4
- Scale: major
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