A Falling Out
LITTLE old man and I fell out;
How shall we bring this matter about?
Bring it about as well as you can;
Get you gone, you little old man.
Tom, the Piper’s Son
Tom, Tom, the piper’s son,
Stole a pig and away he run!
The pig was eat and Tom was beat,
And Tom went howling down the street.
Peg
Peg, Peg, with a wooden leg,
Her father was a miller;
He tossed the dumpling at her head,
And said he could not kill her.
A Difficult Rhyme
What is the rhyme for porringer?
The king he had a daughter fair,
And gave the Prince of Orange her.
The Old Woman tossed in a Basket
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon;
Where she was going I couldn’t but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
“Old woman, old woman, old woman,” quoth I,
“Where are you going to up so high?”
“To brush the cobwebs off the sky!”
“May I go with thee?” “Aye, by-and-by.”