The Only True Mother Goose Melodies: Without Addition Or Abridgement : Embracing Also a Reliable Life of the Goose Family, Never Before Published : Numerous Illustrations |
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... . Nineteen Twenty - my stomach's empty . Snail , Snail , Come out of your hole , Or else I'll beat you black as a coa . Snail , Snail , Put out your head , Or else I'll beat you till you're dead B The man in the moon came down too soon.
... . Nineteen Twenty - my stomach's empty . Snail , Snail , Come out of your hole , Or else I'll beat you black as a coa . Snail , Snail , Put out your head , Or else I'll beat you till you're dead B The man in the moon came down too soon.
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... did fight the humblebee And scratched him in the face . Fa , Fe , Fi , Fo , Fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman . Be he live or be he dead , I'll grind his bones to make me bread . Richard and Robin were two pretty men ; They laid.
... did fight the humblebee And scratched him in the face . Fa , Fe , Fi , Fo , Fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman . Be he live or be he dead , I'll grind his bones to make me bread . Richard and Robin were two pretty men ; They laid.
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... dead , she's dead , says Richard to Robin , She's dead , she's dead , says Robin to Bobin , She's dead , she's dead , says John all alone , She's dead , she's dead , says every one . How get her home ? says Richard to Robin , How get ...
... dead , she's dead , says Richard to Robin , She's dead , she's dead , says Robin to Bobin , She's dead , she's dead , says John all alone , She's dead , she's dead , says every one . How get her home ? says Richard to Robin , How get ...
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... dead . So Johnny Pringle he sat down and cried , And Betty Pringle she laid down and died . There is the history of one , two , and three , Johnny Pringle , Betty Pringle , and Piggy Wiggie . Two sticks in an apple , Ring the bells of 29.
... dead . So Johnny Pringle he sat down and cried , And Betty Pringle she laid down and died . There is the history of one , two , and three , Johnny Pringle , Betty Pringle , and Piggy Wiggie . Two sticks in an apple , Ring the bells of 29.
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... on Monday , Hired a house on Tuesday , Fed her well on Wednesday Sick was she on Thursday . Dead was she on Friday , Sad was Tom on Saturday , To bury his wife on Sunday . I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb 84.
... on Monday , Hired a house on Tuesday , Fed her well on Wednesday Sick was she on Thursday . Dead was she on Friday , Sad was Tom on Saturday , To bury his wife on Sunday . I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb 84.
Common terms and phrases
baby bells of St Bobby Shaftoe bonny Boston bread Bristol cart and six cock Cotton Mather Dance dead dear ding Eliot Norton Elizabeth Gaskell Fal de ral-al family of Goose gay ladye gone GOOSE FAMILY Granary Burying Ground HARVARD COLLEGE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hire seven cooks horse Isaiah Thomas Jill Johnny shall ride jump'd king Lady Lee little boy Little Robin Little Robin Redbreast marry MATHER AND MOTHER mee-ow mi-ow mittens Mother Goose Mother Goose's Melodies mouse NORTON NOVEMBER 16 Nose Nursery office in Pudding old woman penny pounce pretty printing office Pudding lane pumpkin eater purr-r pussy cat Pussy-Cat queen ral-al de ral-laddy Richard to Robin Robin to Bobin Say the bells says John says Richard says Robin shoe sing songs and ditties stole oranges street Taffy Thomas Fleet three little kittens washed wealthy family wheelbarrow wife wren
Popular passages
Page 38 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 54 - I like little Pussy, Her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her She'll do me no harm. So I'll not pull her tail, Nor drive her away, But Pussy and I Very gently will play...
Page 53 - I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters, To garter up his hose, And a little handkerchief, To wipe his pretty nose.
Page 53 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Page 4 - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe; She had so many children she didn't know what to do.