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All The Pretty Horses

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hush-a-bye, don't you cry
go to sleep you little baby
when you wake, you shall have cake
and all the pretty little horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
all the pretty little horses
hmm, and mama loves, daddy loves
oh they love their little baby
when you wake, you shall have cake
and all the pretty little horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
all the pretty little horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
coach and six white horses
way down yonder, down in the meadow
lies a poor little child
the bees and the flies are pickin' out its eyes
the poor little child crying for its mother
oh, crying for its mother
hush-a-bye, don't you cry
go to sleep you little baby
when you wake, you shall have cake
and all the pretty little horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
coach and six white horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
all the pretty little horses
blacks and bays, dapple and greys
all the pretty little horses

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distopiandreamguy On Mar 02, 2006

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2006-03-02 18:29:38

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by Mr_Craw

19y ago

Awesome, awesome, awesome

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by j.enslow

18y ago

indeed, Mr Craw.... indeed. to say it is dark is not to say i do not lvoe it

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by Memorycard

16y ago

This song is about how plantation owners would have slaves take care of their children and how the slaves children would get neglected and die.

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by j.enslow

20y ago

dark, dark, dark.

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