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- > Doodle bug, doodle bug
- > Where are you?
- > Doodle bug, doodle bug
- > Your house is on fire.
- > Doodle bug, doodle bug
- > Your house is on fire.
- >of my childhood?
- >doris
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- I've never heard that one before but we had a related version:-
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- Ladybird, ladybird
- Fly away home
- Your house is on fire
- Your children all gone.
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- There were more verses but that's all I remember... BTW a ladybird is a beetle
- who eats aphids and therefore is a welcome member of the insect world in any
- garden.
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- Carolyn
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