[With His Long Fol-de-Rol]

Oh mother, dearest mother,
I think you are to blame
For at the age of sixteen
You used to do the same.
You left your relations,
Your friends and your all,
To follow off [sic] my father
With his long fol de rol.

	A fragment sent on March 3, 1927 -- now Number 2641 in the Gordon "Inferno" collection at the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Culture -- by the redoubtable M.D. Little of Long Island City.  Mr. Little added the note: "Scotch, before 1880, Canada."