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baby Billy bird Bobby Bobby Shaftoe bonny Burnie bee carrion crow clap handies Cock-a-doodle-do crooked Curly-locks dickory ding Doctor Foster Dumpty fell fiddle finger moving Dance gay lady GOOSEY Hector Protector Hot-cross Buns house that Jack Hush-a-bye Jack built Jack Sprat Jenny Wren Jerry Hall killed the rat King kissed Lady Lee lambs to sell little boy little girl Little Jack Little Jack Horner Little Jenny Wren little maid Little Polly Flinders Little Robin Little Robin Redbreast lol de riddle Lucy Locket Lumpety malt That lay Mary merrymen mulberry bush Nancy Dawson never would cry Old Mother old woman PAT-A-CAKE Pease porridge Peter Piper Polly Poor old Robinson pretty maid Pussy Pussy-cat ride Robin Hood Robin Redbreast Say the bells shoe Simple Simon sneeze Solomon Grundy song Taffy tail trot Tweedle-dum whistle Who'll wife worried the cat
Popular passages
Page 49 - 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 40 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 25 - When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle, and all.
Page 116 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 60 - Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon.
Page 68 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed in the morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 114 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Page 62 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four- and -twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie! When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 68 - This is the dog, That worried the cat, ' That killed the rat, • That ate the malt, ' That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 17 - Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, And come with your playfellows into the street.