Along came {name} (* … Patrick, Patrick won't you come to tea, Come next Sunday at half past three. He kissed her, he kissed her, he took her to town, He bought her a ring and a damascene gown. She laughs and she sings, and she sings so sweet. Down by the River, where the Sun goes down, I saw a raccoon wearing a a crown. Down by the River where the Green grass grows, I saw a boy fishing with a hoe. Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill Where the air smelled … She calls to her sweetheart across the street. Come next Saturday at half past three. Part of it is "down by the river where the green grass grows" then it's something about watermelon and not wanting to go home to mom because she will ask about being down by the river where the green grass grows. Down by the River with the deer run free, I saw a deer blowing kisses at me. Mary, Mary, won't you come to tea? She sang and she sang And she sang so sweet. She sing, she sings, she sings so sweet, She calls to her baby across the street Patrick, Patrick, won't you come to tea? She sing, she sings, she sings so sweet, She calls to her baby across the street Patrick, Patrick, won't you come to tea? / Down by the river where the green grass grow / & the sun be burnin' burnin' (hot) / Take your pantyhose don't nobody know where you go Down in the valley Where the green grass grows, There sat {name} (* Names a girl *) As sweet as a rose. Down by the river where the green grass grows there sits Patrick washing his clothes. The song seemed to be intended for group singing; the same verse being sung repeatedly around the group like a game, using different group member's names where the XXX is. Come next Sunday at half past three. Down by the river where the green grass grows, Pretty Polly Perkins bleaches her clothes. *Also given as "Down In The Meadow Where The Green Grass Grows" and Down In The Valley Where The Green Grass Grows" The words to that rhyme are given in Roger D. Abraham's "Jump Rope Rhymes, A Dictionary" {published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press 1969} as Down by the river {in the meadow, valley} Down by the river where the green grass grows There sits Mary washing her clothes. Down by the river where the green grass grows, there sits XXX washing his clothes, he sings, he sings, a song so sweet, crying to his playmates up and down the street. He sings, he sings, a song so sweet, and calls his playmates up and down the street. Tea cakes, Lardy cakes, everything you'll see, Down by the River. Tea cakes, lardy cakes, everything you'll see. Down by the River where the Green grass grows, I saw some very strange things you know. 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