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Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet,

Eating of curds and whey;

Along came a spider

And sat down beside her,

Which frightened Miss Muffet away.

* * * * *

Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John

Went to bed with his stockings on;

One shoe off, the other shoe on,

Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John.

* * * * *

"Let's go to bed,"

Says Sleepy-head;

"Let's stay awhile," says Slow;

"Put on the pot,"

Says Greedy-sot,

"We'll sup before we go."

* * * * *

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,

His wife could eat no lean:

And so betwixt them both, you see,

They licked the platter clean.

* * * * *

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead;

When she was good,

She was very, very good;

But when she was bad—she was horrid.

[Footnote: Attributed to Longfellow.]

* * * * *

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.

* * * * *

Hickory, dickory, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

And down he run,

Hickory, dickory, dock

* * * * *

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe;

She had so many children she didn't know what to do.

She gave them some broth without any bread,

And whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

* * * * *

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,

Had a wife and couldn't keep her.

He put her in a pumpkin shell,

And there he kept her very well.

* * * * *

Little Jack Horner

Sat in a corner,

Eating a Christmas pie:

He put in his thumb

And pulled out a plum

And said, "What a good boy am I!"

* * * * *

Old Mother Hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get her poor dog a bone;

But when she got there,

The cupboard was bare,

And so the poor dog had none.

She went to the baker's

To buy him some bread;

And when she came back,

The poor dog was dead.

She went to the joiner's

To buy him a coffin;

And when she came back,

The doggy was laughin'.

She went to the butcher's

To buy him some tripe;

And when she came back,

He was smoking his pipe.

She went to the hatter's

To buy him a hat;

And when she came back,

He was feeding the cat.

She went to the barber's

To buy him a wig;

And when she came back,

He was dancing a jig.

She went to the tailor's

To buy him a coat;

And when she came back,

He was riding a goat.

She went to the cobbler's

To buy him some shoes;

And when she came back,

He was reading the news.

* * * * *

Little Bo-peep

She lost her sheep,

And couldn't tell where to find them.

"Let them alone

And they'll come home,

Wagging their tails behind them."

Little Bo-peep

Fell fast asleep

And dreamt she heard them bleating,

But when she awoke,

She found it a joke,

For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took

Her little crook,

Determined for to find them.

She found them indeed,

But it made her heart bleed—

For they'd left their tails behind them.

* * * * *

My dear, do you know

A long time ago

Two poor little children,

Whose names I don't know,

Were taken away on a bright summer day

And left in the woods, as I've heard people say.

And when it was night,

How sad was their plight!

The sun it went down

And the stars hid their light.

They sobbed and they sighed and sadly they cried,

Till the poor little things at last lay down and died.

And when they were dead,

The robins so red

Brought beech and oak leaves

And over them spread.

And all the day long, the branches among,

They sang to them softly, and this was their song:

"Poor babes in the woods, poor babes in the woods,

Oh, who will come find the poor babes in the woods?"

* * * * *

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man;

He washed his face in a frying pan,

He combed his hair with a wagon wheel,

And died with the toothache in his heel.

* * * * *

Old Man John sitting down by the spring;

He's a Jew, he's a ring,

He's a many pretty thing.

He's a hammer with nine nails,

He's a cat with nine tails.

Whip jack, spur Tom,

Blow the bellows for Old Man John.

* * * * *

We're all in the dumps,

For diamonds are trumps;

The kittens are gone to St. Paul's;

The babies are bit,

The moon's in a fit,

And the houses are built without walls.

* * * * *

I had a little horse, his name was Dapple Gray;

His legs were made of cornstalks, his body made of hay.

I saddled him and bridled him and rode him off to town;

Up came a puff of wind, and blew him up and down.

The saddle flew off, and I let go—

Now didn't my horse make a pretty little show?

* * * * *

Georgy-porgy, pudding and pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry.

When the boys came out to play,

Georgy-porgy ran away.

* * * * *

April fool, go to school,

Sit on a two-legged stool.

Too wise you are, too wise you be;

You are not too wise for me.

* * * * *

Johnny's mad, and I am glad,

And I know what will please him:

A bottle of wine to make him shine,

And Mary Jones to squeeze him.

* * * * *

Cry, baby, cry,

Stick your finger in your eye

And tell your mother 'twasn't I.

* * * * *

Tell-tale-tit,

Your tongue shall be slit,

And all the dogs about the town

Shall have a little bit.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where is the peck of peppers Peter Piper picked?

* * * * *

Swan swam over the sea,

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again,

Well swum, swan.

* * * * *

Ickity, pickity, ally gadaw,

Dicks, do, ally gamaw,

Okus, pokus, pelly gaw,

Franz.

* * * * *

One-ery, two-ery, three-ery, thum,

Backsley, Billy, Nicholas, Bum,

One-a-tirry, Dick and Sirry,

Pot ban, riddle man,

Link, Pink, Sink.

* * * * *

Inly, minly, dibbity fig,

Delia, Dolia, dominig,

Otcha, potcha, dominotcha,

Ella Bella boo,

Out goes you.

* * * * *

Intery, mintery, cutery corn,

Apple seed and apple thorn,

Wire, brier, limber lock,

Three geese in a flock;

Along came Tod,

With his long rod,

And scared them all to Migly-wod.

One flew east, one flew west,

One flew over the cuckoo's nest.—

Make your way home, Jack.

* * * * *

Trit-trot, trit-trot,

To buy a penny cake;

Home again, home again,

I met a black-snake.

Pick up a stone

And breaky backy-bone

Trit-trot, trit-trot

All the way home.

* * * * *

Hippity—hop to the barber shop,

To buy a stick of candy;

One for you, and one for me,

And one for Brother Andy.

* * * * *

This little mouse got caught in a trap,

And this little mouse she heard it snap,

This little mouse did loudly squeak out,

And this little mouse did run all about,

This little mouse said, "Do not bewail

And let us take hold and pull him out by the tail."

[Footnote: Recited on the baby's fingers or toes.]

* * * * *

Here we go up, up, up,

Here we go down, down, down-y;

Here we go up, and here we go down,

And here we go round, round, round-y.

* * * * *

As I went through the garden gap,

Whom should I meet but Dick Red-cap—

A stick in his hand,

A stone in his throat—

If you'll tell me this riddle,

I'll give you a gold fiddle.

(A cherry)

* * * * *

One day I went to my whirly-whicker-whacker, (Fodder field)

I met bow-backer, (A hog)

I called Tom-tacker (A dog)

To drive bow-backer

Out of my whirly-whicker-whacker.

* * * * *

One day I went to Body-tot,

I met three ladies in a trot,

With green heads and yellow toes—

If you don't tell me this riddle I'll burn your nose.

(Hens)

* * * * *

Big at the bottom and little at the top,

A thing in the middle goes flippety-flop.

(A churn)

* * * * *

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

(An egg)

* * * * *

I have a little sister, she's called Peep-peep;

She wades the waters deep, deep, deep;

She climbs the mountains high, high, high—

Poor little thing, she has but one eye.

(A star)

* * * * *

There was a man who had no eyes,

He went abroad to view the skies;

He saw a tree with apples on it,

He took no apples off, yet left no apples on it.

(The man had one eye, and the tree had two apples on it.)

* * * * *

(The following catch depends upon the second child repeating the exact words of the first, except that he changes "lock" to "key.")

1. I am a gold lock.

2. I am a gold key.

1. I am a silver lock,

2. I am a silver key.

1. I am a brass lock,

2. I am a brass key.

1. I am a monk lock.

2. I am a monk-key.

* * * * *

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each sack had seven kits— Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

* * * * *

Star of light, so bright, so bright,

'Tis the first star I've seen tonight;

I wish I may, I wish I might

Have the wish I wish tonight.

* * * * *

Marble, marble, roll away,

Go find your brother;

Marble, marble, come back home,

Bring me another.

[Footnote: If you have lost a marble, take another marble and roll it toward the place you lost the first one, repeating this charm. You will find the lost one near the second marble.]

* * * * *

Honest and true, black and blue,

You may take your knife and cut me in two.

(An oath)

* * * * *

Come, butter, come,

Come, butter, come;

Johnny stands at the gate,

Waiting for a butter cake—

Come, butter, come.

* * * * *

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Guard the bed that I lie on;

One to watch and one to pray,

And two to bear my soul away.

* * * * *

Mole on the neck,

Money by the peck.

* * * * *

Rain before seven,

Quit before eleven.

* * * * *

Evening red and morning gray

Sets the traveler on his way;

Evening gray and morning red,

Brings down rain upon his head.

* * * * *

When the fog goes up the hill,

Then the rain comes down by the mill.

* * * * *

When the bees all homeward fly,

Flowers will not long be dry.

* * * * *

1, 2, 3, 4, Mary at the cottage door; 5, 6, 7, 8, Eating cherries off a plate.

* * * * *

Naught, one,

Work is done;

Two, three,

Jubilee;

Four, five,

Ducks are alive;

Six, seven,

Stars shine up in heaven;

Eight, nine,

Queen, Queen Caroline,

Wash your face in turpentine,

Monkey-shine, monkey-shine,

Queen, Queen Caroline.

* * * * *

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two

Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

* * * * *

Thirty days hath September,

April, June, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February alone,

Which has twenty-eight in line,

Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine.

* * * * *

Birds of a feather

Flock together.

* * * * *

He that would thrive

Must rise at five;

He that has thriven

May rise at seven.

* * * * *

Little strokes

Fell great oaks.

* * * * *

See a pin and pick it up,

All the day you'll have good luck.

See a pin and let it lay,

You'll have bad luck all the day.

* * * * *

For every evil under the sun,

There is a remedy, or there is none;

If there be one, try and find it,

If there be none, never mind it.

* * * * *

Pease porridge hot,

Pease porridge cold,

Pease porridge in the pot,

Nine days old.

Some like it hot,

Some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot,

Nine days old.

* * * * *

Hot-cross buns,

Hot-cross buns,

One a penny, two a penny,

Hot-cross buns.

Hot-cross buns,

Hot-cross buns,

If you have no daughters,

Give them to your sons.