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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ratcatcher's Daughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Not long ago, in Vestminstier,<br>There liv'd a ratcatcher's daughter, -<br>But she didn't quite live in Vestminstier,<br>'Cause she liv'd t'other side of the vater; -<br>Her father caught rats, and she sold sprats,<br>All round and about that quarter;<br>And the gentlefolks all took off their hats,<br>To the putty little ratcatcher's daughter.<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She vore no 'at upon her 'ead,<br>No cap nor dandy bonnet,<br>The 'air of 'er 'ead all 'ung down her back,<br>Like a bunch of carrots upon it;<br>Ven she cried 'Sprats!' in Vestminstier,<br>She 'ad such a sweet loud woice, sir,<br>You could hear her all down Parliament Street,<br>As far as Charing Cross, sir.<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now, rich and poor, both far and near,<br>In matrimony sought her;<br>But at friends and foes she turn'd up her nose,<br>Did the putty little ratcatcher's daughter.<br>For there was a man, sold lily-vite sand,<br>In Cupid's net had caught her;<br>And right over head and ears in love<br>Vent the putty little ratcatcher's daughter!<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now lily-vite sand so ran in'er 'ead,<br>As she vent along the Strand, oh!<br>She forgot as she'd got sprats on her 'ead,<br>And cried, 'D'ye vant any lily-vite sand, oh,'<br>The folks, amaz'd, all thought her craz'd,<br>As she vent along the Strand, oh!<br>To see a gal vith sprats on 'er 'ead<br>Cry, 'D'ye vant any lily-vite sand, oh!'<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now ratcatcher's daughter so ran in his 'ead,<br>He couldn't tell vat he was arter,<br>So, instead of crying 'D'ye vant any sand?'<br>He cried, 'D'ye vant any ratcatcher's darter?'<br>His donkey cock'd his ears and laughed,<br>And couldn't think vat 'e was arter,<br>Ven he heard his lily-vite sandman cry,<br>'D'ye vant any ratcatcher's darter?'<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">They both agreed to married be<br>Upon next Easter Sunday,<br>But Ratcatcher's daughter she had a dream<br>That she wouldn't be alive on Monday;<br>She vent vunce more to buy some sprats,<br>And she tumbled into the vater,<br>And down to the bottom, all kiver'd up with mud,<br>Vent the putty little ratcatcher's daughter!<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Ven Lily-vite Sand 'e 'eard the news,<br>His eyes ran down with vater,<br>Said 'e, 'In love I'll constiant prove;<br>And - blow me if I'll live long arter.'<br>So he cut 'is throat vith a pane of glass,<br>And stabb'd 'is donkey arter!<br>So 'ere is an end of Lily-vite Sand,<br>Donkey, and the ratcatcher's daughter.<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The neighbours all, both great and small,<br>They flocked unto 'er berrein',<br>And vept that a gal who'd cried out sprats,<br>Sould be dead as any herrein'.<br>The Corioner's Inquest on her sot,<br>At the sign of the Jack i' the Vater,<br>To find vat made life's sand run out<br>Of the putty little ratcatcher's daughter!<br>Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The verdict vas that too much vet<br>This poor young voman died on;<br>For she made an ole in the Riviere Thames,<br>Vot the penny steamers ride on!<br>'Twas a haccident they all agreed,<br>And nuffink like self-slaughter;<br>So not guiltee o' fell in the sea,<br>They brought in the ratcatcher's daughter!<br>*Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=115377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">*Well, ladies and gentlemen, - arter the two bodies was resusticated - they buried them both in one seminary - and the epigram which they writ upon the tombstone went as follows - Doodle dee! doodle dum! di dum doodle da!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=E.+Bradley">E. Bradley</a></strong></div>