Nursery rhymes and jingles for children Mother Goose nursery rhymes
Nursery rhymes and jingles A-M
Index Nursery Rhymes
A tisket A tasket
All Around the Mulberry Bush
Alouette
An Apple A Day
Billy Boy
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Bobby Shaftoe
Bye Baby Bunting
Cock A Doodle Doo
Did You Ever See A Lassie
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Ding Dong Bell
Do You Know the Muffin Man
Down At the Station
Georgie Porgie
Goosey Goosey Gander
The Grand Old Duke of York
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
Hey Diddly Diddly
Horsey Horsey On Your Way
Hot Cross Buns
Humpty Dumpty
Hush Little Baby
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jack and Jill
Jack Be Nimble
Jack Sprat
Ladybug
Little Bo Peep
Little Boy Blue
Little Jack Horner
Little Miss Muffet
London Bridge
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
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--A-Tisket, A-Tasket--
A-tisket, a-tasket, A green and yellow basket;
I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it.
I dropped it, I dropped it. And on the way I dropped it;
A little girlie picked it up And put it in her pocket.
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--All Around The Mulberry Bush--
All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun. Pop! goes the weasel.
A penny for a spool of thread, A penny for a needle.
That's the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.
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--Alouette--
Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette je te plumerai.
Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette je te plumerai.
Je te plumerai la tête, Je te plumerai la tête,
Et la tête, et la tête, Alouette, Alouette,
O-o-o-o-oh
Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette je te plumerai.
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--An Apple A Day--
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Apple in the morning - Doctor's warning
Roast apple at night - starves the doctor outright
Eat an apple going to bed - knock the doctor on the head
Three each day, seven days a week - ruddy apple, ruddy cheek
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--Billy Boy--
Oh where have you been
Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Ohh where have you been
Charming Billy?
I have been to seek a wife
She’s the joy of my life,
But she's a young thing
And cannot leave her mother.
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--Baa Baa Black Sheep--
Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives in the lane.
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--Bobby Shaftoe--
Bobby Shaftoe went to sea,
Silver buckles at his knee.
He'll come back and marry me,
Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.
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--Bye Baby Bunting--
Bye oh baby Bunting Daddy's gone a-hunting
To get a little rabbit skin To wrap his Baby Bunting in
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--Cock A Doodle Doo--
Cock a doodle doo!
The dame has lost her shoe,
The master's lost his fiddling stick,
And knows not what to do.
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--Did You Ever See A Lassie--
Did you ever see a lassie, A lassie, A lassie?
Did you ever see a lassie Go this way and that?
Go this way and that way, And this way and that way,
Did you ever see a lassie, Go this way and that?
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--Diddle Diddle Dumpling--
Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John,
Went to bed with his trousers on;
One shoe off, and one shoe on,
Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John!
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--Ding Dong Bell--
Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well
Who put her in? Little Johnny Green
Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout
What a naughty boy was that Try to drown poor Pussycat,
Who never did him any harm But killed the mice
In his Farmer's barn!
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--Do You Know The Muffin Man?--
Oh do you know the Muffin Man? The Muffin Man, The Muffin Man?
Oh do you know the Muffin Man Who lives in Drury Lane?
Oh yes l know the Muffin Man, The Muffin Man, The Muffin Man.
Oh Yes l know the Muffin Man Who lives in Drury Lane.
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--Down At The Station--
Down at the station Early in the morning,
See the little puffer-billies
All in a row. See the engine driver
Pull the little throttle........
Ding ding ding ding Off we go!
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--Georgie Porgie--
Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.
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--Goosey Goosey Gander--
Goosey Goosey Gander whither shall I wander,
Upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber
There I met an old man who would not say his prayers,
I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs
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--The Grand Old Duke Of York--
The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men
He led them up the hill
And he led them down again.
And when you’re up, and when you’re down, you’re down
And when you’re only halfway up
You’re neither up nor down.
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--Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush--
Here we go round the Mulberry bush,
The Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush.
Here we go round the Mulberry bush,
So early in the morning.
This is the way we wash our clothes,
We wash our clothes, we wash our clothes.
This is the way we wash our clothes,
So early Monday morning.
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--Hey Diddle Diddle--
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such sport
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
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--Hickory Dickory Dock--
Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock
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--Horsey, Horsey On Your Way--
Horsey, horsey on your way
We’ve been together for many a day.
So let your tail go swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up, we're homeward bound.
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--Hot Cross Buns--
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns
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--Humpty Dumpty--
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 together again!
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--Hush Little Baby--
Hush little baby, don't you cry,
Pappa’s gonna buy you an apple pie
Go to sleepy little baby.
When you wake, you'll have cake,
And all the pretty little horses.
Dapples and bays, Pintos and greys,
A coach, and six little horses.
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy little baby
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--The Itsy Bitsy Spider--
The Itsy Bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the Itsy Bitsy spider went up the spout again!
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--Jack And Jill--
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.
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--Jack Be Nimble--
Jack be nimble Jack be quick
Jack jumped over The candlestick.
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--Jack Sprat--
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean
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--Ladybug--
Ladybug ladybug fly away home,
Your house in on fire and your children are gone,
All except one and that's little Ann,
For she crept under the frying pan.
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--Little Bo Peep--
Little Bo peep has lost her sheep
And can’t tell where to find them.
Leave them alone and they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.
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--Little Boy Blue--
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn.
But where's the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I - for if I do, he's sure to cry
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--Little Jack Horner--
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said "What a good boy am I!"
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--Little Miss Muffet--
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away
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--London Bridge--
London bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
Build it up with sticks and stones
Sticks and stones, sticks and stones,
Build it up with sticks and stones,
My fair lady.
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--Mary Had A Little Lamb--
Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.
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--Mary Mary Quite Contrary--
Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row
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