Happy and Gay Marching Away

E-text prepared by the Internet Archive Children's Library, David Garcia, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Here are Tot, Tom and Toby: There are lots of things to see; There are dogs and cats and horses and goats, As happy as they can be.
A lit-tle girl Read in her book, How a wick-ed boy A wild bird took From out its nest In the green-wood tree A cap-tive now 'Tis forced to be, And flutters its poor wings all day long, And beats the bars of its cage so strong.
Poor lit-tle bird! She soft-ly cried; Then on her head Her hood she tied, Took down the cage Of her own bird, Opened the door, With joy-ous word. Fly, lit-tle bird, a-way, quoth she, Back to your home in the green-wood tree.
A-way, a-way, The glad bird flew, Far out of sight, In heav-ens blue. The wee girl watched With won-der-ing eye, Till it had fad-ed In the sky, Then sat her down, and cried, Boo-hoo! My bird is gone! What shall I do?
Her pin-a-fore With tears was wet: My bird a-gain, I'll nev-er get. At last she raised Her weep-ing eye, And there at hand, What should she spy But bird-ie hop-ping in his door, Tired of his free-dom, back once more.
One day, all in the sweet spring weather, Two lit-tle folk went out to-geth-er. Oh the bright May-day! Sun was shining, birds were sing-ing, Flow-ers bloom-ing, May-bells ring-ing! Oh the glad May-day!
So they two went forth a May-ing, Laugh-ing, dan-cing, sing-ing, say-ing Oh the bright May-day! What care we for moth-er's warn-ing? Who would bide at home this morn-ing? Oh the glad May-day!
Hi! Diddle, Diddle! The Cat and the Fiddle! The Cow jumped over the Moon.
The Little Dog laughed to see such sport, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
These are Jack and Jill. Do you not see their pail? They fill it with salt wa-ter.
What a sweet lit-tle lamb! said May. No: it is a wolf. I must run: he will eat me.