Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon is shining bright as day;
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And come with your playfellows into the street;
Come with a whoop, and come with a call,
Come with a good will, or come not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A halfpenny roll will serve us all:
You find milk and I’ll find flour,
And we’ll have a pudding in half-an-hour.
I’ll tell you a story
About Jack-a-Nory,
And now my story’s begun;
I’ll tell you another,
About Jack and his brother,
And now my story’s done.
Ding, dong, bell,
Pussy’s in the well!
Who put her in?—
Little Johnny Green.
Who pull’d her out?—
Little Johnny Stout.
Oh! what a naughty
Boy was that,
To drown his poor
Grand-mammy’s cat,
Which never did him any harm,
But kill’d the mice in his father’s barn.
