6

‘Seven foot Bible

At my head and my feet;

If my mother pass by me,

Pray tell her I’m asleep.’

N

Newell’s Games and Songs of American Children, p. 75, as sung by a little girl in New York: derived, through her mother, from a grandmother born in Ireland.

1

It was on a May, on a midsummer’s day,

When it rained, it did rain small;