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Up on the Garden Gate
 by: Leroy Jackson
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Up on the Garden Gate - Treat for a Clown

Set me up on the garden gate
And put on my Sunday tie;
I want to be there
With a round-eyed stare
When the circus band goes by.

Give me a bag of suckerettes
And give me a piece of gum,
Then I’ll get down
And treat the clown,
And give the monkey some.