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Raw Head And Bloody Bones

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Title:     Raw Head And Bloody Bones
Author: Thomas W. Talley [More Titles by Talley]

[40]RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES


Don't talk! Go to sleep!
Eyes shet an' don't you peep!
Keep still, or he jes moans:
"Raw Head an' Bloody Bones!"


FOOTNOTE
[40] Repeated to restless children at night
to make them lie still and go to sleep.






[The end]
Thomas W. Talley's poem: Raw Head And Bloody Bones

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