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A Session With Uncle Sidney - III - Sings A "Winky-Tooden" Song

By James Whitcomb Riley

Topics: classic

O here's a little rhyme for the Spring- or Summer-time -         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho! -      Just a little bit o' tune you can twitter, May or June,         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho!      It's a song that soars and sings,      As the birds that twang their wings      Or the katydids and things         Thus and so, don't you know,         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho!      It's a song just broken loose, with no reason or excuse -         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho!      You can sing along with it - or it matters not a bit -         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho!      It's a lovely little thing      That 'most any one could sing      With a ringle-dingle-ding,         Soft and low, don't you know,         An a-ho-winky-tooden-an-a-ho!

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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