Tag: Poetry
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Mother Goose: About the Bush
ABOUT THE BUSH About the bush, Willie, About the beehive,About the bush, Willie, I’ll meet thee alive.
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Mother Goose: Wee Willie Winkie
WEE WILLIE WINKIE Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,“Are the children in their beds? Now it’s eight o’clock.”
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Mother Goose: Georgy Porgy
GEORGY PORGY Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,Kissed the girls and made them cry.When the boys came out to play,Georgy Porgy ran away.
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Mother Goose: A Man in our Town
THE MAN IN OUR TOWN There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise,He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratched out both his eyes;But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main,He jumped into another bush, And scratched ’em in again.
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Mother Goose: Banbury Cross
BANBURY CROSS Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,To see an old lady upon a white horse.Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,She shall have music wherever she goes.
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Mother Goose: Christmas
CHRISTMAS Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,Please to put a penny in an old man’s hat;If you haven’t got a penny a ha’penny will do,If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you. Christmas #2 Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer.
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Mother Goose: Two Birds
TWO BIRDS There were two birds sat on a stone, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;One flew away, and then there was one, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;The other bird flew after,And then there was none, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;And so the stoneWas left alone, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de. By Mother Goose
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Mother Goose: Lucy Locket
LUCY LOCKETLucy Locket lost her pocket,Kitty Fisher found it;Nothing in it, nothing in it,But the binding round it. By Mother Goose
