| Lyrics: | The Singular Dream
Oh, Johnny Bull was an Englishman,
went out on a tramp one
day,
With three cents into his pocket
to bear him a very long way.
He traveled
on for many a mile
and no one did he see,
Till at length he fell in with an
Irishman
by the name of Paddy McGee.
"Good morning," then says John to
Pat,
"and where are you going to?"
"Indeed, I hardly know, sir,
I'm
searching a job to do."
"Have you any money about you?",
at length said Paddy
McGee;
"Indeed, if that's what you're searching for,
I haven't got any for thee.
"
So they travels on for many's a mile
and no one did they meet,
At length fell
in with a Scotsman,
Like themselves he was out for work;
"Have you any money about
you7 ",
at length one upped and said...
"Indeed if that's what you're searching
for,
I haven't got a red. "
"Well", says Johnny Bull , "I have three
cents
now what'll we do with that? "
"We'll buy three cents worth of whiskey,
it'll cheer us up," says Pat.
"Oh no," said the Scotsman,
"I'll tell you what we'll
do,
We'll buy three cents worth of oatmeal
and make a little McGrew. "
"I will
go and buy a loaf,"
Johnny Bull did say,
"We'll go down by yonders haystack,
and sleep our hunger away;
We'll take a drink of water
from yonders pearling
stream,
The loaf will be his in the morning
that dreams the most singular
dream."
"Well," says Scottie, "I've been dreaming
of fifty thousand
men,
Been ten years digging a turnip,
the largest ever was seen;
At length
they got that turnip dug,
by digging night and day,
And it took just fifty thousand
teams
to draw that turnip away."
Says Johnny, "I've been dreaming
Of
fifty thousand men,
Been ten years maKing a boiler,
the largest ever was
seen."
"What was your boiler made of, sir,
sure was it copper or tin?"
"By the
powers that be it was copper, sir,
to boil your turnip in."
Well the Irishman rose
in the morning
And told what he had dreamed:
"Sure I dreamed I was under the
haystack
down by the pearling stream,
I dreamed that Scottie and you was there,
as sure as I must go,
By the powers, I dreamed I was hungry,
I got up and I ate the
loaf..'
recorded by Stekert, Songs of a NY Lumberjack (Folkways)
see also
BOLGNA
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