Version 1

Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. Mama buy me a chiney doll (repeat twice)
Do Mama do.
2. What would it take to buy it with?… Do Mama do.
3. You could take daddy’s feather bed…
4. Then where would our daddy sleep?…
5. He could sleep in the puppy’s bed…
6. Then where would our puppy sleep?…
7. Sleep in the horse’s bed…
8. Then where could our horsey sleep?…
9. Sleep in the piggy’s bed…
10. Then where could our piggy sleep?…
11. She could root out on our front lawn…
12. Then where would our children play?…
13. Swing on the garden gate…
14. Yes and get a spanking*, too (spoken once). Do Mama do.
Suggestion: Change to “Yes and get in trouble too!”

See also
- Subject: family / animals
- Harmony: chords I IV V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scales: pentatonic (version 1) / hexachord (version 2)
- Tones: drmsl (version 1) drmfsl (version 2)
- Source: Silver Burdett Music, Early Childhood, Silver Burdett Company, 1981
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody


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