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111 There is no need of boot or spur,

There is no need of whip or wand,

For Johnny has his holly-bough,

And with a hurly-burly now

He shakes the green bough in his hand.

And Betty o'er and o'er has told

The boy who is her best delight,

Both what to follow, what to shun,

What do, and what to leave undone,

How turn to left, and how to right.

And Betty's most especial charge,

Was, "Johnny! Johnny! mind that you

"Come home again, nor stop at all,

"Come home again, whate'er befal,

"My Johnny do, I pray you do."