Title: An Alphabet of Old Friends
Author: Walter Crane
Release date: December 11, 2005 [eBook #17282]
Most recently updated: December 13, 2020
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Suzanne Shell, Christine D and the Online
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An alphabet of old friends originally published 1874;
A carrion crow sat on an oak, |
Ba, ba, black sheep, |
Hen. Cock, cock, I have la-a-ayed! |
Dickery, dickery, dock, |
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess, |
Father, father, I've come to confess. |
Gang and hear the owl yell, |
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top; |
I had a little husband |
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, |
King Cole was a merry old soul, |
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, |
Mistress Mary, |
Needles and pins, needles and pins, |
Once I saw a little bird, |
Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold; |
Queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey. |
Ride a-cock horse to Banbury Cross, |
Simple Simon met a pieman, |
Taffy was a Welshman, I went to Taffy's house, I went to Taffy's house, |
Up hill and down dale, |
Valentine, Oh, Valentine, |
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?" |
Cross X patch, |
You know that Monday is Sunday's brother; |
Zodiac for the Nursery.
The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, |