the swap song
Singer:ives, burl
when i was a little boy i lived by myself
all the bread and cheese i gotta put it on the shelf
i had to go to london to get myself a wife
the roads were so slick and the lanes were so narrow
had to take her home in a old wheelbarrow
the wheelbarrow broke and my wife had a fall
swap my wheelbarrow got me a horse
then i rode from cross to cross
swapped my horse and got me a mare
then i rode from fair to fair
swapped my mule and got me a cow
and in that trade i just learned how
swapped my cow and got me a calf
in that trade i lost just half
swapped my calf and got me a mule
then i rode like a dog-gone fool
swapped my mule and i got me a sheep
then i rode till i went to sleep
swapped my sheep and got me a goat
swapped my goat and got me a rat
put it in the haystack to run the cat
swapped my rat and got me a hen
what a pretty little think i had then
swapped my hen and got me a mole
and the dog-gone thing ran straight to its hole