The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

Robin and Wren

The Robin and the Wren
Fought about the parritch-pan;
And ere the Robin got a spoon,
The Wren had ate the parritch down.

Buy me a Milking-pail

BUY me a milking-pail,
  Mother, mother.”
“Betsy’s gone a-milking,
  Beautiful daughter.”

“Sell my father’s feather-bed,
  Mother, mother.”
“Where will your father lie,
  Beautiful daughter?”

“Put him in the boys’ bed,
  Mother, mother.”
“Where will the boys lie,
  Beautiful daughter?”

“Put them in the pigs’ stye,
  Mother, mother.”
“Where will the pigs lie,
  Beautiful daughter?”

“Put them in the salting-tub,
  Mother, mother.
Put them in the salting-tub,
  Mother, mother.”