The Jew’s Garden
Freda Black
April 2012
Two little boys come there to play
to play the football swings
they tossed the balls so very very high
tossed it high and low
they tossed it over in the Jew’s garden
where the Jew did lay down by.
Up steps one of the Jew’s daughters
come slowly walking down
said ‘come over here, my fair pretty boy
and you shall have your ball’
‘no, thank you, my fair pretty lady
my playmate is not well’
so she showed him apples and she showed him pears
and at last she ‘ticed him in.
she lied him on an old oak chest
and gave him sugar sweets
yes, she led [laid] him on that old, old chest
and stabbed him like some sheep
[spoken] and he said if my mother was to pass by her
pray tell her I’m asleep