 | James Robinson Planché - Children's plays - 1879 - 388 pages
...COURTIERS, GUARDS, 6-v., discovered. Air and Chorus — AMBASSADOR and SUITE — " Old King Cole." Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; 'Till he lost his only daughter, Who was taken on the water, And drowned in her infancy. Ever since... | |
 | James Barmby - 1880 - 224 pages
...(Beefeaterplaces a punch-bowl on the table. The King fills his glass, and begins the song,) (Song.) Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old...and he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he ! Fiddle-diddle-dee went the fiddlers, fiddle-diddle-dee!... | |
 | 1880 - 56 pages
...went the fiddlers, Fiddle-diddle-de ; But none were there who could compare With the sons of harmony. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...and he called for his bowl, And he called for his harpers three ; Twang, twang, twang, went the harpers, Twang, twang, twang ; Twee, twee, twee, went... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1880 - 296 pages
...do I fol de rol de ri do ! ' There's no more ; and then what do you think of ' Old King Cole ' ? " ' Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. Tweedle-dee, tweedle-dee ! said the fiddlers ' I don't... | |
 | James Henry - 1881 - 1022 pages
...Malbrouk he went to the barber, the barber [he /] wasn't at home ; " and " old king Cole was a mern,- old soul, and a merry old soul was he ; he called...and he called for his bowl, and he called for his harpers three ; " in the last of which not only the "he" of the third line, but the whole third line... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1921 - 954 pages
...King Cole By WALT MASON Illustration by RALPH BARTON 0 LD KING COLE was a jolly old soul, and a jolly old soul was he; he called for his pipe and he called...for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers three." So we're informed by Mother Goose, whose tales of old were spun ; this Old King Cole, of morals loose,... | |
 | Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1881 - 200 pages
...meaning in the least, to cast a little light on the subject. Few can be ignorant, for instance, that " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, He call'd for his pipe, and he call'd for his pot, And he call'd for his fiddlers three." We have made... | |
 | Sarah Catherine Martin, mother Hubbard - 1883 - 80 pages
...Let every one his neighbour serve, As served he'd like to be. THE MAN iff THESSALY. OLD KING COLE. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he — Twee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers Oh,... | |
 | E. Lloyd - 1883 - 528 pages
...was heard of him as he turned into AVhitechapel being the ancient ditty, sung with variations, of ' Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he.' Reprehensible as it was in Mr. Figgins to have so forgotten himself and his marital position in the... | |
 | William Taylor Adams - 1883 - 414 pages
...tree; Up went the pussy-cat, down went — " See, saw, Margery Daw ; Jennie shall have a new — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; And he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his — 320 A QUEER MUSIC-BOX.... | |
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Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he: He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. 
