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To whom it may concern: the midi file link is dead. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.29.48 (talk) 15:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Is there also not another verse:

Bobby Shafto's tall and thin

Always dressed so neat and trim

Lassies, they all smile at him

Bonnie Bobby Shafto

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.4.21.238 (talk) 12:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply] 
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Wooley Foster

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Came across this version in The Book of Nursery Rhymes Complete (1846) which uses "Wooley Foster" instead of Bobby Shafto, in addition to a verse which doesn't rhyme unless you pronounce "cow" as "coo" (as in Scottish):

Wooley Foster has gone to sea,
With silver buckles at his knee,
When he comes back he'll marry me,
Bonny Wooley Foster.

Wooley Foster has a cow,
Black and white about the mow,
Open the gates and let her through,
Wooley Foster's ain cow.

Wooley Foster has a hen,
Cockle button, cockle ben,
She lays eggs for gentlemen,
But none for Wooley Foster.

- Einstein95 (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]