Sing On, Oh Children.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue VIII, 22 August 1903, Page 564

Sing On, Oh Children.

Little Muriel was radiant on her return front school one day last week. “We learnt a new song this morning, mummy!” she announced. Mummy expressed her exceeding joy at the news, and thinking that probably: Muriel’s dainty little fingers would be kept out of the domestic jampot if she were employed, she asked to hear it. Muriel garnered a halfpenny in consideration of the effort she would have to make, and then stood upon the customary chair. I “This is it, mummy!” she said, and the little voice was upraised in song: “I am a little greenhorn, Among a half of cheese, And “Oh, I don’t know any more, mummy! But isn’t it a funny song ?” Mummy agreed that it was certainly a funny song—so funny, indeed, that she considered further investigation necessary. But she felt somewhat relieved to find that Muriel had mistaken the words of the melody, which was really a highly moral ditty, commencing: 1 “I am a little gleaner Among the harvest sheaves.”