Rhymes: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary...

Rhymes: MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY...

MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle-shells, And pretty maids all of a row.

BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, They were two bonny lasses; They built their house upon the lea, And covered it with rushes.

Bessy kept the garden gate, And Mary kept the pantry; Bessy always had to wait, While Mary lived in plenty.

NEEDLES AND PINS

Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins.

PUSSY-CAT AND THE DUMPLINGS

Pussy-cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings, Pussy-cat ate the dumplings. Mamma stood by, and cried, "Oh, fie! Why did you eat the dumplings?"

DANCE, THUMBKIN DANCE

Dance, Thumbkin, dance; (keep the thumb in motion Dance, ye merrymen, everyone. (all the fingers in motion For Thumbkin, he can dance alone, (the thumb alone moving Thumbkin, he can dance alone. (the thumb alone moving Dance, Foreman, dance, (the first finger moving Dance, ye merrymen, everyone. (all moving But Foreman, he can dance alone, (the first finger moving Foreman, he can dance alone. (the first finger moving Dance, Longman, dance, (the second finger moving Dance, ye merrymen, everyone. (all moving For Longman, he can dance alone, (the second finger moving Longman, he can dance alone. (the second finger moving Dance, Ringman, dance, (the third finger moving Dance, ye merrymen, dance. (all moving But Ringman cannot dance alone, (the third finger moving Ringman, he cannot dance alone. (the third finger moving Dance, Littleman, dance, (the fourth finger moving Dance, ye merrymen, dance. (all moving But Littleman, he can dance alone, (the fourth finger moving Littleman, he can dance alone. (the fourth finger moving

MARY'S CANARY

Mary had a pretty bird, Feathers bright and yellow, Slender legs--upon my word He was a pretty fellow!

The sweetest note he always sung, Which much delighted Mary. She often, where the cage was hung, Sat hearing her canary.

THE LITTLE BIRD

Once I saw a little bird Come hop, hop, hop; So I cried, "Little bird, Will you stop, stop, stop?"

And was going to the window To say, "How do you do?" But he shook his little tail, And far away he flew.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Birds of a feather flock together, And so will pigs and swine; Rats and mice will have their choice, And so will I have mine.

THE DUSTY MILLER

Margaret wrote a letter, Sealed it with her finger, Threw it in the dam For the dusty miller. Dusty was his coat, Dusty was the siller, Dusty was the kiss I'd from the dusty miller. If I had my pockets Full of gold and siller, I would give it all To my dusty miller.

Higher than a house, higher than a tree. Oh! whatever can that be?

THE GREEDY MAN

The greedy man is he who sits And bites bits out of plates, Or else takes up an almanac And gobbles all the dates.

THE TEN O'CLOCK SCHOLAR

A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar! What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon.

COCK-A-DOODLE-DO

Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock, I pray you, do not crow before day, And your comb shall be made of the very beaten gold, And your wings of the silver so gray.

Lives in winter, Dies in summer, And grows with its roots upward!

A SHIP'S NAIL

Over the water, And under the water, And always with its head down.

THE OLD WOMAN OF LEEDS

There was an old woman of Leeds, Who spent all her time in good deeds; She worked for the poor Till her fingers were sore, This pious old woman of Leeds!

THE BOY IN THE BARN

A little boy went into a barn, And lay down on some hay. An owl came out, and flew about, And the little boy ran away.

Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more, On the King's kitchen door, All the King's horses, And all the King's men, Couldn't drive Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more, Off the King's kitchen door.

WILLY, WILLY

Willy, Willy Wilkin Kissed the maids a-milking, Fa, la, la! And with his merry daffing He set them all a-laughing, Ha, ha, ha!

Long legs, crooked thighs, Little head, and no eyes.

JACK JINGLE

Little Jack Jingle, He used to live single; But when he got tired of this kind of life, He left off being single and lived with his wife. Now what do you think of little Jack Jingle? Before he was married he used to live single.

THE QUARREL

My little old man and I fell out; I'll tell you what 'twas all about,-- I had money and he had none, And that's the way the noise begun.

THE PUMPKIN-EATER

Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well.

Shoe the colt, Shoe the colt, Shoe the wild mare; Here a nail, There a nail, Yet she goes bare.

BETTY BLUE

Little Betty Blue Lost her holiday shoe; What shall little Betty do? Give her another To match the other And then she'll walk upon two.

THAT'S ALL

There was an old woman sat spinning, And that's the first beginning;