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The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

by Walter Jerrold

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Nanny Etticoat

LITTLE Nanny Etticoat,
In a white petticoat
And a red nose;
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows.

Good-Friday Song

  Hot-cross Buns!
  Hot-cross Buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
  Hot-cross Buns!

  Hot-cross Buns!
  Hot-cross Buns!
If ye have no daughters,
  Give them to your sons.

I saw a Ship a sailing

SAW a ship a-sailing,
  A-sailing on the sea;
And it was full of pretty things
  For baby and for me.

There were sweetmeats in the cabin,
  And apples in the hold;
The sails were made of silk,
  And the masts were made of gold.

The four-and-twenty sailors
  That stood between the decks,
Were four-and-twenty white mice,
  With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck,
  With a packet on his back;
And when the ship began to move,
  The captain cried, “Quack, quack!”

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