Dance to your daddy (Percy Snowdon)

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Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2003-04-15).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 258 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: No. 2 from 'Northumbrian Folk Songs'

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Title: Dance to Your Daddy
Composer: Percy Snowdon

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB

Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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English text

Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy,
to your mammy sing;

You shall have a fishy
In a little dishy,
you shall have a fishy
When the boat comes in.

Here's your mother comin'
like a canny woman,
here comes your father,
drunk, he canna stand.

Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy
my little lad.

You shall have a fishie
on a little dishie,
you shall have a fishie
when the boat comes in.

Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy
my little lamb.

You shall have a coatie
and a pair of breekies,
you shall have a whippie
and some bread and jam.