Oh! she’s a fresh and fair land,
Oh! she’s a true and rare land,
Yes! she’s a rare and fair land,
This native land of mine.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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A baby was sleeping[32]
About the seasons[22]
A blue and white sky[4]
A bushel of March dust[1]
A Cheshire man[37]
A cold April[1]
Adam lay[36]
Adam was supposed[36]
A Friday dream[7]
A good child[112]
A litel grounde[109]
And so you do not[46]
An old story[78]
A peacock picked[77]
A penny for the chappin’ stick[113]
April, June[12]
A robin and a titter-wren[74]
A robin red-breast[5]
A skylark wounded[5]
A stands for Age[88]
A stands for Apple[87]
As I sat under[10]
As I was going along[115]
As I was going to Derby[52]
As many days[105]
A shower of rain[2]
As Tommy[50]
A superstition prevails[32]
At Easter let your clothes[2]
At ten a child[108]
Autumn wheezy[9]
A wet Good Friday[2]
Baby, baby[30]
Baby cry[25]
Bishop, Bishop[83]
Bobby Shaft[111]
Born of a Monday[110]
Cherries a ha’penny[113]
Clemany, Clemany[16]
Cocky-bendy[113]
Come, butter, come[104]
Come, my little Robert[43]
Commodore Rogers[112]
Cooing, cooing[81]
Cuckoo oats[2]
Daddy Neptune[116]
Dance a baby[29]
Dicky bird[73]
Did you ever see[117]
Dinah, Dinah[100]
Ding dong[101]
Dinty diddledy[100]
Dragon fly[82]
Dusky sister[81]
Eat an apple[7]
Eat, birds, eat[75]
Essex stiles[106]
Farmers’ wives[3]
February borrowed[15]
February fill the dyke[15]
Find odd-leaved ash[7]
“Fire! fire!”[118]
First take an old woman[118]
Five score[6]
Friday’s a day[4]
Gaffer Grey[119]
Get up at four[107]
Give your attention[103]
God made man[106]
Go not down[80]
Good day, Miss Cat[57]
Good-morning, lords[94]
Green gravel[92]
Great A[86]
Hab can nab[115]
Hark! the night winds[34]
He that will fish[119]
Here is puss[60]
Here a little child[40]
Here’s good health[107]
Here we come[11]
Here we dance[90]
Here we go[94]
He who shall hurt[5]
“Ho! Johnnie!”[64]
Horatio[45]
Hush, hush, hush[25]
Hush ye[23]
I do not like[40]
If all the waters[119]
If apples bloom[18]
If Christmas Day[3], [3], [12]
If ducks do slide[13]
If Janiveer[1]
If New Year’s Eve[13]
If Saturday’s moon[12]
If the cat[5]
If the evening’s red[20]
If the grass grow[1]
If wishes were horses[118]
If you want[5]
I had a little[63]
I had a true love[97]
I left my bairnie[39]
In April[76]
Into woods[70]
I rent my shirt[14]
I see the moon[7]
It hails, it rains[96]
I’ve come a shrovin’[115]
It happened that[85]
I will sing you a song[75]
January brings[8]
Jack and Jill[104]
Jack Sprat[55]
January 22nd[13]
Julius Cæsar[120]
Júwa, Júwa[30]
King Grin[7]
Knit, Dorothy[48]
Lady-bird[84]
Lady, Lady Lanners[83]
Leedle! leedle![57]
“Let us go to the wood”[63]
Little General Monk[105]
Little Goody Tidy[111]
Little John Jig Jag[105]
Little King Boggen[112]
Little lamb[51]
Little Mary[51]
Little Willie from his mirror[45]
Lords and knights[81]
Lucy Locket[114]
March he sits[76]
Maria had an aunt[47]
Monday for health[110]
Most parts of the cow[60]
Mr Mason[114]
My child[41]
My father died[107]
My grandmother[106]
Nanty, Panty[114]
Nettle out[109]
Next to the Lion[6]
Now we must name[58]
Oak before ash[15]
Oats and beans[92]
Observe which way[69]
O can ye sew cushions[25]
O hush thee[28]
One I love[93]
One-ery, two-ery[95]
One to make ready[117]
One, two, three[82]
Our Lord forth raide[69]
Oh, we have had[48]
Parson Peard[77]
Peter sat[104]
Pink and white’s[120]
Polly, put the kettle on[114]
Poor dog Bright[68]
“Pudding and pie!”[101]
Pussy-cat high[57]
Pussy-cat Mole[57]
Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat[58]
Pussy sat upon a wall[56]
Rain, rain, go away[19]
Rain, rain, go to Spain[4]
Rain, rain, rattle stone[4]
Rainbow, rainbow[20]
Red sky at night[4]
Remember, remember[14]
Remember in St Vincent’s[13]
Riddle me, riddle me[113]
Riggity-jig[114]
Robin, robin red-breast[75]
Rosy apple[93]
Round the Maypole[94]
Rum-ti-tum-tum[117]
Said an ape[78]
St Thomas gray[3]
Saturday new[4]
See the little rabbits[70]
See where the sun[108]
Seven sweet singing birds[98]
She is a rich and rare[121]
Sleep, baby, sleep[31], [33]
Small is the wren[103]
Spring, the sweet spring[17]
Sound the flute[18]
Sunshine and rain[2]
Sunrise breakfast[110]
Sweet Amaryllis[79]
The babe was in the cradle[49]
The beggar’s dog[5]
The cock did say[78]
The cow has a horn[61]
The fox looked out[68]
The man in the moon[117]
The martin[6]
The moon and the weather[9]
There was a man[120]
There was a piper[62]
There was a thing[21]
There’s a garden[109]
There was an old woman[99]
There was one little Jim[42]
There were three jovial[38]
There’s two birds[102]
The rainbow[20]
The robin and the[74]
The robin red-breast[74]
The rose is red[10]
The wanton boy[5]
Three cats sat[59]
The west wind[21]
The wind at north[21]
This is my birthday[40]
Through storm and wind[18]
’Tis like to be[2]
’Tis time to cock[3]
Tit-tat-toe[102]
To market ride[119]
Tom married a wife[111]
’Tween Martinmas[3]
Under the furze[7]
Up the hill[121]
Vlee away[76]
Walking up[91]
What bird so sings[75]
Where hae ye been[24]
What is she doing[59]
What’s in the cupboard[110]
What way does the wind[102]
When Adam dolve[7]
When Adam he first[35]
When I was a little[112]
When little birdie[28]
When little Claude[101]
When the cuckoo[76]
When the moon[16]
When the weirling[77]
When you were an acorn[109]
Wherefore wash you[56]
White for right[6]
Who’ll gu[73]
Whose little pigs[63]
Whoso does the wren’s[6]
Why, I cannot tell[20]
“Will ye go to the wood?”[71]
Winter thunder[1], [16]
Won’t be my father’s[116]
Wynken, Blynken[26]

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