Daddy Fox went out on a chilly night
With a ling dong, dilly dong, kyro me
Praying for the moon to give him
light
With a ling dong, dilly dong, kyro me
Hey
falee fala falero, hey falero lero lee;
Up jumped John, a-ringing on his
bell,
With a ling dong, dilly dong, kyro
me.
He ran till he came to a quick kip
pen
The ducks and geese they lay therein
He grabbed the grey goose by the neck
Threw a little duck all across his
back
Old Mrs Flipper-Flopper jumped out of
bed
Through the window she stuck her
little head
And John rode up to the top of the
hill
He blew his little horn both loud and
shrill
The fox went back to his cozy den
Little ones were there, they were
eight, nine and ten
The fox and his wife without any
strife
Cut up the goose with a fork and a knife
The song was collected
by the Hammond brothers from Mrs Crawford in West Milton, Dorset in 1906.
Versions exist wherever English is spoken, and the text is fairly consistent.
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