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Subject: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Benson
Date: 15 Dec 98 - 11:10 PM

Lyrics..?? Two little boys..had two little toys, Each was a wooden horse....Gayly they played each summers day warriers both of course...

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Gene
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 12:36 AM

You can listen to a bluegrass version at:
* HERE *

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Webby
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 03:20 AM

Hi Benson, Please note that this is a ROLF HARRIS free Zone!!!

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Subject: Lyr Add: TEN LITTLE TOES (Barrie Roberts)
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 03:57 AM

Hey Webby, I thought it was a US Civil War song!

Way back when RH had a b-i-i-ig hit with it (early '70s?) my old musical pal Barrie Roberts got so fed up of hearing it that he wrote new words. At least there's nothing wrong with the tune!

TEN LITTLE TOES

Two little boys had two little toys,
Each had a cross-cut saw.
Gaily they played, sawing away,
and they ripped and they tore.
Then poor little Jack had a fearful mishap
As he hacked off his left-hand leg!
He hobbled abaout, screaming and shouting,
Till his young playmate said:

"Did you think I would leave you hobbling?"
And he hacked off his right leg too!
"Climb up here, Jack, a bit of cobbling
And you'll be just as good as new!
When we grow up we'll both be lumberjacks
And we'll cut down the trees in rows.
Do you think you will ever remember
When you had ten little toes?"

Long years passed, lumberjacks at last
Both of the boys became,
Sawing away until the fateful day
When the forest was all aflame.
Joe got caught, struggled and fought,
But he could not get away!
He'd resigned himself to a fiery death,
When he heard Jack say:

"Did you think I would leave you frying?"
And he hacked off Joe's legs too!
"Climb up here Joe and let's be flying,
For my tin feet will see us through!
Can't you see, Joe, I'm all a-trembling -
Do you think it's the fire's glow?
No, Joe - I'm remembering
When I had ten little toes!"

Enjoy!
Steve

Steve, the line break tag is
. is for bold. -Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Ewan McV
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 04:16 AM

I've a notion good old Rolfie claimed it as a Boer War song. I have I know read a clear account of when the song was written and by who, but oddly the relevant brain cells have been wiped clean by some unseen agency.

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Webby
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 04:53 AM

Hi Ewan McV, Thats what you get when you listen to Rolf

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: alison
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 06:22 AM

Hi Steve,

Loved it....... thanks for the chuckle.

By the way if you do a search... we had another thread on this in the last year.

slainte

alison

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Subject: Tune Add: TWO LITTLE BOYS
From: alison
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 08:25 AM

Hi

Believe it or not I've been asked for the tune, (obviously some parts of the world have been spared Rolf Harris).... so here it is....

Slainte

alison

MIDI file: TWOLITTL.MID

Timebase: 480

Name: TWO LITTLE BOYS
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: D
Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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ABC format:

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T:Two little boys
M:4/4
Q:1/4=100
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F2E2B,4|F2A2F2E2|F3/2E/2D6||

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Webby
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 08:41 AM

Alison DON'T DO IT Spare the poor devils the agony of rolf Harris. ps While i think of it can you send our cricketers home before they make even more fools of themselves. Thanks

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Big Mick
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 08:47 AM

In what backwater, uncivilized part of the world would they have such uncouth, ill bred, and untrained clods that they would not have heard of Rolf Harris. I canna believe that this place actually exists.........

All the best,

Mick

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Benson
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 09:48 AM

Excuse my ignorance........I heard the tune in the late 60's from a fellow who was at one time a member of a group known as "Knob lick upper 10,000" ......I got married in the 70's and was forced to spend my time raising kids and listening to Barry Manilow and .....Well some of you know.... Rolfe Harris...???? Didn't he have something to do with tying up kangaroos???....Memory fades with age.....Maybe he was the guy in the movie "A man called Horse".......Heck!!! I've been away....

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Dale Rose
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 10:35 AM

Well, I would like to put at least one part of the discussion to rest. This is not a Rolf Harris original. It goes back at least to 1962, when it was recorded by The Country Gentlemen on their Bluegrass at Carnegie Hall album, available on CD as Hollywood 113~~it was originally released on Starday. I know who Rolf Harris is, and have heard a couple of his songs, but have never heard him do this.

Gene has posted the words to the CG version in one of the earlier threads and early on in this thread, he pointed to the url where you can hear their version in its entirety. It is possible that listening to it might give some of you a fresh outlook on the subject.

As to its origins, it certainly is older than 1962, I will put it on my list of things to find out!

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 12:04 PM

Seeing as we have all of the Rolf Harris fans together, does anyone know the words to 'Jake the Peg'?

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 08:40 PM

G'day,
Webby, are those blokes you sent cricketers? I was looking forward to a good summer of cricket here but I might have to watch tennis instead.

Bert, I'm sort of hoping I haven't got Jake The Peg but if I have I'll post it sometime over the weekend.

Cheers,
Alan

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: alison
Date: 16 Dec 98 - 09:07 PM

Hi.

I believe that part of the world was some sleepy little backwater called........ oh yes.... Michigan!!!

I'm Jake the peg, deedle eedle eedle um,
with my extra leg,deedle eedle eedle um,
wherever I go through rain or snow,
the people always let me know
I'm Jake............

If you REALLY want the other verses I'll type them in later........ I've just spent a morning in Hell at the kids kindergarten Christmas party.......... and I need a cup of tea!!

Slainte

alison

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 98 - 01:39 AM

As a public service, I hereby present links to previous threads on this song:

Christmas 1997 Version

November 1996 Version

You know, maybe it's not a bad idea to resurrect songs once a year and see what new information we collect.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: Two little Boys...had two little toys
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 04 Jan 99 - 02:58 AM

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