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About the Bush, Willy 
About the Bush, Willy 
About the bush, Willy, About the beehive, About the bush, Willy, I'll meet thee alive. 
Then to my ten shillings
 Add you but a groat, I'll go to Newcastle, And buy a new coat. 
Five and five shillings Five and a crown; Five and five shillings Will buy a new gown. 
Five and five shillings, Five and a groat; Five and five shillings Will buy a new coat. 
Gullen Trad. Number Rhymes (1950), 45 (no. 118). [Gullen supposedly reflects rhymes as used in Scotland, but this is a Northumbrian song, in Bruce & Stokoe (1882), 110, with its pleasant tune.] 1.4 alive should be belyve, i.e. soon. 
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