Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  

Market Day

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 by Malvina Reynolds, assigned 1963 to Schroder Music Company.

My pa got up this morning before the break of day,
To go to the market to sell a load of hay.
Father did the driving. I got on the load,
We went thro the morning along the bumpy road.

The hay it was bouncy, the hay it was deep,
The hay it was bouncy, the hay it was deep,
I jiggled and I joggled and I fell fast asleep.
I jiggled and I joggled and I fell fast asleep.

Father got to market, but when I could not tell.
He sold the load of hay to the drover of the dell.
The drover took his money out, just about to pay,
He saw a pair of feet in the middle of the hay.

He said to my father, "What's going on?
I'm not buying farm boys at so much a ton."
Pa said, "I'm sorry if the price seems dear;
The boy crop in our town is rather poor this year."

I jumped from the wagon and we bade him good day;
I wasn't being sold off with any load of hay.
I jumped from the wagon and walked through the fair
With an apple in my pocket and clover in my hair.

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