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Nursery rhymes and jingles for children Mother Goose nursery rhymes

Mom Goose

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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Nursery rhymes O-Z continued next page

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