| Put on the skillet, put on the lid
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| Mama’s gonna bake a little shortenin' bread
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| That ain’t all she’s gonna do,
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| She’s gonna make a little coffee, too.
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| Mamma’s little baby loves shortnin', shortnin'
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| Mamma’s little baby loves shortnin' bread
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| Mamma’s little baby loves shortnin', shortnin'
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| Mamma’s little baby loves shortnin' bread
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| Three little children layin' in the bed
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| Two were sick and the other 'most dead
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| Sent for the doctor, the doctor said
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| «Feed those children on shortnin' bread»
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| Mammy’s baby loves shortenin'
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| Mammy’s baby loves bread
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| Mammy’s baby loves shortenin' bread
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| Ri diddle dee etc…
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| Slip to the kitchen, slip up the led,
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| Filled my pockets full of short’nin' bread;
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| Stole the skillet, stole the led,
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| Stole the gal makin' short’nin' bread.
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| Mama’s baby loves short’nin',
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| Mama’s baby loves short’nin'
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| Mama’s little baby loves to have the shortenin' bread
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| The short’nin' bread is always diddly-da-da, etc…
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| The must have their bread
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| They caught me with the skillet, they caught me with the led,
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| Caught me with the gal makin' short’nin' bread;
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| Paid six dollars for the skillet, six dollars for the led,
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| Spent six months in jail eatin' short’nin' bread.
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| Mama’s little baby loves short’nin', short’nin',
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| Mama’s little baby loves short’nin' bread,
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| Mama’s little baby loves short’nin', short’nin',
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| Rip-ho, ho, etc…
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| Oh shortenin', da-da-da-da,
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| Oh Mammy, give us that bread |