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JoJo
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JoJo asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicLyrics · 9 years ago

Can anyone tell me the words to a very old song with the line in it:?

`I care for nobody, no! not I since nobody cares for me` I remember it being sung by my Grand-parents in the 40`s and would love to know the rest of the words.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    It's called "The Miller of Dee"

    There was a jolly miller once lived on the river Dee;

    He danced and sang from morn till night, no lark so blithe as he;

    And this the burden of his song forever used to be: -

    "I care for nobody, no not I, if nobody cares for me.

    "I live by my mill, God bless her! she's kindred, child, and wife;

    I would not change my station for any other in life;

    No lawyer, surgeon, or doctor e'er had a groat from me;

    I care for nobody, no not I if nobody cares for me."

    When spring begins his merry career, oh, how his heart grows gay;

    No summer's drought alarms his fear, nor winter's cold decay;

    No foresight mars the miller's joy, who's wont to sing and say,

    "Let others toil from year to year, I live from day to day."

    Thus, like the miller, bold and free, let us rejoice and sing;

    The days of youth are made for glee, and time is on the wing;

    This song shall pass from me to thee, along the jovial ring;

    Let heart and voice and all agree to say, "Long live the king."

  • 9 years ago

    It's possibly a nursery rhyme called There Was a Jolly Miller Once

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