| Take my little hoe, dig a hole in the ground
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| Take my little seed and I plant it down;
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| Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
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| We’ll all dance around and see my little seed grow.
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| Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
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| Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
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| Let’s all dance around and see my little seed grow.
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| The rain it come and it washed my ground
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| I thought my little seed was going to drown
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| I waded and I splashed and I carried my seed
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| I planted it again on some higher ground.
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| The sun got hot and my ground got dry.
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| I thought my little seed would burn and dir.
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| I carried some water from a watering mill,
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| I said, «Little, you can drink your fill.»
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| The snow it blowed and the wind it blew;
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| My little seed grew and it grew and it grew.
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| It grew up a cradle all soft inside;
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| And a baby was sleeping there covered over with vines |