The jaybird sat on the redbird’s nest. The redbird sat and mourned. The blind man sat and shopped his shoe, And the boatman blowed his horn. 
Redbird sitting in jaybird’s nest, Jaybird sitting in de morn. Oh, look at the blind man sewing up the shoe And the dead man just coming to. 
Jay bird died with the whoopingcough, Black bird dies with the colic; ’Long came a toad-frog with his tail bobbed off And that broke up the frolic. 
Way down yonder, a long way off, A jay bird died with the whooping cough. Stiff shirt collar, three rows of stitches, Square-toed boots and short-legged breeches. 
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