Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914
By GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
Copyright, 1914
By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Copyright, 1918
By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America


A List of the Rhymes

A, B, C, tumble down D[165]
A carrion crow sat on an oak[136]
A cat came fiddling out of a barn[49]
A diller, a dollar[173]
A duck and a drake[9]
Aena, deena, dina, duss[73]
A frog he would a-wooing go[147]
A glass of milk and a slice of bread[138]
A good child, a good child[31]
A hill full, a hole full[79]
All of a row[6]
A long-tailed pig, or a short-tailed pig[97]
An old woman lived in Nottingham town[47]
A red sky at night[30]
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose[93]
As high as a castle[27]
As I was going o'er London Bridge[116]
As I was going to St. Ives[2]
As I was going up and down[107]
As I was going up Pippin Hill[15]
As the days grow longer[50]
As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks[3]
A sunshine shower[105]
A sunshiny shower[135]
A swarm of bees in May[48]
At the siege of Belleisle[65]
Awake, arise, pull out your eyes[87]
A was an archer[166]
A water there is[53]

Baa, baa, black sheep

[26]
Bat, bat, come under my hat[52]
Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day[122]
Birds of a feather flock together[137]
Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go![145]
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea[109]
Bossy-cow, bossy-cow, where do you lie?[108]
Bow-wow-wow[3]
Brow brinky[129]
Bryan O'Lin and his wife[47]
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear[23]
Burnie bee, burnie bee[53]
Butterfly, butterfly, whence do you come?[94]
Buz, quoth the blue fly[57]
Bye, baby bunting[3]

Cantaloupes! Cantaloupes! What is the price?

[1]
Charley Warley had a cow[90]
Christmas comes but once a year[135]
Clap, clap handies[65]
Cock a doodle doo[103]
Cocks crow in the morn[21]
Come hither, sweet robin[131]
Come, let's to bed![66]
Come, my dear children[74]
Come to the window[117]
Come when you're called[29]
Cross Patch[90]
Cry, baby, cry[79]
Curly locks! Curly locks! wilt thou be mine?[49]
Currahoo, curr dhoo[1]

Daffy-Down-Dilly

[25]
Dance to your daddy[105]
Darby and Joan were dress'd in black[85]
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John[42]
Dickory, dickory, dock[67]
Ding, dong, bell[14]-[103]
Ding, dong, darrow[21]
Doctor Faustus was a good man[91]
Doctor Foster went to Gloster[169]
Dogs in the garden, catch 'em, Towser[23]
Donkey, donkey, old and gray[58]
Draw a pail of water[54]

Eggs, butter, cheese, bread

[27]
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess[63]
Elsie Marley has grown so fine[18]

Father, may I go to war?

[127]
F for a fig[176]
For every evil under the sun[107]
Friday night's dream on Saturday told[39]

Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie

[55]
God bless the master of this house[132]
Good horses, bad horses[57]
Goosey, goosey, gander[118]
Great A, little a, Bouncing B[101]
Great A, little A[10]

Handy Spandy, Jack-a-dandy

[45]
Hark! hark! the dogs do bark[107]
Hector Protector was dressed all in green[58]
Heigh, diddle, diddle[100]
Here am I, little jumping Joan[62]
Here sits the Lord Mayor[19]
Here's Sulky Sue[158]
Here stands a post[9]
Here we go round the mulberry bush[134]
Hickery Dickery 6 and 7[106]
Hickory Dickory, sackory down[50]
Hickety, pickety, my black hen[95]
Higher than a house[17]
Hink minx! the old witch winks[32]
Hiram Gordon, where's your pa?[144]
Hot cross buns[76]
How many miles is it to Babylon?[104]
Hub-a-dub-dub[122]
Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall[76]
Hush-a-bye, baby, Daddy is near[125]
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top[1]
Hush, baby, my doll[46]

I am a gold lock

[81]
I bought a dozen new-laid eggs[107]
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell[89]
If all the seas were one sea[106]
If all the world was apple-pie[119]
If all the world were water[123]
If ifs and ands[79]
I had a little husband[118]
I had a little nut-tree[35]
I had a little pony[84]
I had four brothers over the sea[155]
I have a little sister[139]
I'll tell you a story[9]
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm[69]
I love you well, my little brother[133]
In fir tar is[57]
Intery, mintery, cutery, corn[55]
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail[61]
It costs little Gossip her income for shoes[157]
It's raining, it's pouring[169]
I went to the wood and got it[85]
I went up one pair of stairs[146]
I will sing you a song[109]
I won't be my father's Jack[50]

Jack and Jill went up the hill

[80]
Jack, be nimble; Jack, be quick[84]
Jack Spratt could eat no fat[97]
Jack Spratt had a cat[10]
Jack Spratt's pig[125]
Jerry Hall, he is so small[39]
Jockey was a piper's son[40]
John, come sell thy fiddle[14]
Joseph Smith bought a rake[27]

Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper

[152]
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home[87]
Lady-bug, lady-bug[48]
Lazy Tom, with jacket blue[53]
Little Betty Blue[39]
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep[16]
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn[8]
Little Cock Robin peeped out of his cabin[32]
Little drops of water[31]
Little girl, little girl, where have you been?[33]
Little Jack Horner[100]
Little King Boggen he built a fine hall[173]
Little lad, little lad[32]
Little maid, little maid[50]
Little maid, pretty maid[34]
Little Miss Donnet[41]
Little Miss Lily[47]
Little Miss Muffet[32]
Little Nancy Etticote[30]
Little Poll Parrot[41]
Little Polly Flinders[119]
Little Robin Red-breast sat upon a rail[29]
Little Tommy Grace[43]
Little Tommy Tittlemouse[77]
Little Tommy Tucker[99]
Little Tom Twig[132]
Love your own, kiss your own[40]
Lucy Locket lost her pocket[24]

Made in London

[31]
Make three-fourths of a cross[71]
Margaret wrote a letter[11]
Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bopeep[82]
Mary had a little lamb[68]
Mary had a pretty bird[86]
Mary, Mary, quite contrary[73]
Merry are the bells[130]
Miss Jane had a bag[93]
Monday's bairn is fair of face[139]
Multiplication is vexation[60]
My little old man and I fell out[77]
My maid Mary, she minds the dairy[5]
My mother, and your mother[71]
My pussy-cat has got the gout[129]
My story's ended[28]

Nancy Dawson has grown so fine

[128]
Needles and pins[169]
Nose, nose, jolly red nose[108]
Now go to sleep, my little son[104]

Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see

[114]
Oh, dear, What can the matter be? Johnny's so long[62]
Old Father Grey Beard[40]
Old Grimes is dead[128]
Old King Cole was a merry old soul[175]
Old Mother Hubbard[162]
One, he loves; two, he loves[46]
One for the money[96]
One misty, moisty morning[37]
One, two, buckle my shoe[51]
One, two, three, four, Mary at the cottage door[114]
One, two, three, four, five, catching fishes all alive[114]
1, 2, 3, 4, 5! I caught a hare alive[67]
On Saturday night it shall be my whole care[25]
Over the water and under the water[15]

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake

[2]
Pease-porridge hot[4]-[158]
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater[57]
Peter Piper picked a peck[129]
Peter White will ne'er go right[165]
Phoebe rode a nanny-goat[13]
Pickeleem, pickeleem pummis-stone[35]
Pit, pat, well-a-day[31]
Pitty Patty Polt[27]
Play, play every day[29]
Please to remember[5]
Polly, put the kettle on[13]
Polly, Dolly, Kate and Molly[12]
Poor Dog Bright[6]
Pussy Cat Mole[88]
Pussy-Cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?[109]
Pussy sits beside the fire[37]

Rain, rain, go away

[65]
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady[89]
Ride a cock-horse to Shrewsbury Cross[44]
Riddle-me, riddle-me, riddle-me-ree[91]
Ring-a-round-a roses[40]
Ring the bell![4]
Robert Barnes, fellow fine[94]
Robin and Richard were two pretty men[101]
Robin the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben[138]
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green[74]
Rosemary green, and lavender blue[44]
Rowley Powley, pudding and pie[175]
Rub-a-dub-dub[5]

See a pin and pick it up

[83]
See-saw Jack in the hedge[29]
See-saw, Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master[101]
See-saw, Margery Daw, Jenny shall have a new master[9]
See-saw, sacaradown, sacaradown[25]
Shoe the colt[36]
Shoe the horse and shoe the mare[27]
Sing a song of sixpence[70]
Sing, sing! What shall I sing?[10]
Smiling girls, rosy boys[129]
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger[157]
Solomon Grundy[76]
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin[20]
Speak when you're spoken to[137]
St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain[114]
Swan, swam over the sea[107]

Taffy was a Welshman

[145]
Tell-tale-tit![99]
Ten little Injuns standing in a line[124]
The calf, the goose, the bee[69]
The cock doth crow[6]
The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn[33]
The cuckoo's a fine bird[74]
The dove says, "Coo, coo, what shall I do?"[6]
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain[34]
The greedy man is he who sits[45]
The King of France went up the hill[7]
The lion and the unicorn[174]
The man in the moon came tumbling down[121]
The man in the moon looked out of the moon[93]
The man in the wilderness asked me[92]
The North wind doth blow[152]
The old woman must stand at the tub[54]
The Queen of Hearts[146]
The rose is red, the violet is blue[20]
The two gray kits[17]
The winds they did blow[78]
There dwelt an old woman at Exeter[85]
There was a crooked man[71]
There was a little boy and a little girl[31]
There was a little girl who had a little curl[45]
There was a little girl who wore a little hood[23]
There was a little green house[79]
There was a little man and he had a little gun[116]
There was a little one-eyed gunner[80]
There was a man in our town and he was wondrous wise [63]
There was an old crow[29]
There was an old woman, and what do you think[28]
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell[153]
There was an old woman and nothing she had[117]
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all[73]
There was an old woman had three cows[44]
There was an old woman, her name it was Peg[38]
There was an old woman in Surrey[43]
There was an old woman lived under a hill, and if she's not gone[19]
There was an old woman lived under a hill, she put a mouse in a bag[14]
There was an old woman of Harrow,[87]
There was an old woman of Leeds,[82]
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket[75]
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe[88]
There was an owl lived in an oak[127]
There was a rat for want of stairs[62]
There once were two cats of Kilkenny[115]
There's a neat little clock[96]
There were two blackbirds[52]
Thirty days hath September[83]
This is the house that Jack built[140]
This is the way the ladies ride[126]
This little pig went to market[7]
This pig went to the barn[115]
Three Blind Mice[64]
Three children sliding on the ice[102]
Three little kittens they lost their mittens[159]
Three wise men of Gotham[71]
Tit, tat, toe[56]
To market, to market a gallop, a trot[173]
To market, to market, to buy a plum cake[22]
Tommy Trot, a man of laws[95]
Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, he learnt to play when he was young,[20]
Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, stole a pig[123]
Toss up my darling[9]
Trip and go, heave and ho[10]
Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee[122]
Twinkle, twinkle, little star[120]
Two little dogs[65]

Up at Piccadilly, oh!

[67]
Up hill and down dale[67]
Upon my word and honor[172]

Was ever heard such noise and clamor

[60]
Wash the dishes[36]
Wasn't it funny[58]
Wear you a hat, or wear you a crown[52]
Wee Willie Winkie[56]
What do they call you?[73]
What God never sees[53]
What is the rhyme for porringer[82]
When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself[98]
When I was taken from the fair body[13]
When Jacky's a very good boy[133]
When little Fred went to bed[59]
When the days begin to lengthen[1]
Where are you going, my pretty maid?[72]
Whistle, daughter, whistle[38]
Who comes here?[59]
Who killed Cock Robin?[170]
"Will you walk into my parlor?"[110]
Willy boy, Willy boy[79]

Yankee Doodle went to town

[174]

See saw, Margery Daw,
Jenny shall have a new master