Sir E. Brydges, Restituta, I, 381, “obtained some years since” (1814) from the recitation of an aged lady.
1
It rains, it rains in merry Scotland,
It rains both great and small,
And all the children in merry Scotland
Are playing at the ball.
2
They toss the ball so high, so high,
They toss the ball so low,
They toss the ball in the Jew’s garden,