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Come and Buy My Toys Lyrics
Smiling girls and rosy boys
Come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread
And sugar horses painted red
Rich men's children running past
Their fathers dressed in hose
Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes
Gazing eyes and running wild
Past the stocks and over stiles
Kiss the window merry child
But come and buy my toys
You've watched your father plough the fields with a ram's horn
Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn
Reaped it with a sharpened scyth, threashed it with a quill
The miller told your father that he'd work it with the greatest will
Now your watching's over you must play with girls and boys
Leave the parsley on the stalls
Come and buy my toys
You shall own a cambric shirt
You shall work your father's land
But now you shall play in the market square
Till you'll be a man
Smiling girls and rosy boys
Come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread
And sugar horses painted red
Come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread
And sugar horses painted red
Their fathers dressed in hose
Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes
Gazing eyes and running wild
Past the stocks and over stiles
Kiss the window merry child
But come and buy my toys
Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn
Reaped it with a sharpened scyth, threashed it with a quill
The miller told your father that he'd work it with the greatest will
Now your watching's over you must play with girls and boys
Leave the parsley on the stalls
Come and buy my toys
You shall work your father's land
But now you shall play in the market square
Till you'll be a man
Come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread
And sugar horses painted red
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Submitted by
saturnine On Apr 17, 2004
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This is like a pedophile or a child-catcher...like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I don't know much about this song, but it has great rhythm.
I think the song is building up to the third and fourth verses, the first and second describing childhood innocence. The third verse talks about how a child learns the tools of the trade from their father, and the fourth is talking about how eventually childhood innocence ends and the child grows into an adult, taking the place of their father.