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Dance to your daddy my bonnie laddie,
Dance to your daddy, my bonnie lamb.
You shall get a shippy and a little dishy
And a little fishy from the miller's dam.
Dance to your daddy my bonnie laddie,
Dance to your daddy my bonnie lamb.

Dance to your daddy my bonnie laddie,
Dance to your daddy my bonnie lamb.
When you are a mannie you shall work with daddie,
Hold the plough as steady as another man,
Dance to your daddy my bonnie laddie,
Dance to your daddy my bonnie lamb.

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Source: Singing Together, Summer 1970, BBC Publications

Notes:
This is an an unusual version, with its talk of ploughing; generally the verses are about fishing rather than land-based work.

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