Bullock Cart

Freda Bedi, who wrote the words to this song,

was active in the Indian independence movement.
She was also the first Western woman to
take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism.
She wrote these words for her son, Ranga.

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Words: Freda Bedi* Gilbert DeBenedetti

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1. It's fun to play, it's fun to swing Or roll a - bout in a

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2. It rolls and jolts up to the train To fetch our trunks and

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3. Then Bar - kat waves his stick and shouts For the buff - a - loes to

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ham - mock. But I like best the bull - ock cart At

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box - es. It's real - ly quite good ex - er - cise For
start, While I sit on a trunk be - hind O,

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De - ra Ba - ba Nan - ak.** Oh! But I like best the

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buff - a - loes and ox - en. Oh! It's real - ly quite good

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I like the bull - ock cart. Oh! While I sit on a
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bull - ock cart At De - ra Ba - ba Nan - ak.
ex - er - cise For buff - a - loes and ox - en.

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trunk be - hind O, I like the bull - ock cart.
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* Bedi, Freda. Rhymes for Ranga. Noida, NCR, India: Random House India, 2010.
Every effort was made to obtain permission to use the words from the publisher and the author's estate.
** Dera Baba Nanak is a town in northern India.
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