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    The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth
    The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth
    The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth
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    The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth

    By Robert Blatchford and Frank Chesworth

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    The Dolly Ballads was originally published in 1907, written by Robert Blanchford for his daughter, Dolly. Contains five ballads including, Bluebeard, The Bishump, The Lion and The Crocumdile, Exciting Scene in Surburbia, Dolly's Future and The Legend of the Five Flabbagasted Princesses. These ballads have been decorated with the charming and humourous illustrations of Frank Chesworth. Pook Press celebrates the Golden Age of Illustration as is reprinting this classic book in the hope that it will be enjoyed once again by adults and children alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781473381384
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      The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth - Robert Blatchford

      I WISH it didn’t blow, Ma,

      Acos I’s cold as lead;

      An’ I wish if you would rock me

      Before I go to bed,

      If I was on your knee, Ma,

      I fink I’d be all right,

      As then I’s tell a story

      What Mary telled last night.

      Onct there was

      upon a time, Ma—

      Let me kneel up on your knees.

      When a wind shakes all his trees?

      Onct there was upon a time, Ma—

      A naughty Turkiss Jew;

      An’ he lived into a country,

      An’ his whiskums all came blue.

      My Dada’s face is blue, Ma,

      Acos he s’aves, you know.

      Would my Dada have blue whiskums

      If he let his whiskums grow?

      AN’ so they call him Bluebeer’

      (A naughty Jew, I mean),

      An’ he married wis a lady,

      An’ she had to be a Queen.

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