And you and I shall keep the bed warm.
| [The lion and the Unicorn] Were fighting for the crown — The lion beat the unicorn All about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out of town. |
| [Little Johnny Pringle had a little Pig.] It was very little, so was not very big. As it was playing beneath the shed, In half a minute poor Piggy was dead. So Johnny Pringle he sat down and cried, And Betty Pringle she laid down and died. There is the history of one, two and three, Johnny Pringle, Betty Pringle, and Piggy Wiggie. |
| [You owe me five shillings,] Say the bells of St. Helen’s. When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great Bell of Bow. | |
| [Two sticks in an apple,] Ring the bells of Whitechapel. Halfpence and farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin’s. Kettles and pans, Say the bells of St. Ann’s. Brickbats and tiles, Say the bells of St. Giles. Old shoes and slippers, Say the bells of St. Peter’s. Pokers and tongs, Say the bells of St. John’s. |
| [Once in my life I married a wife,] And where do you think I found her? On Gretna Green, in velvet sheen, And I took up a stick to pound her. She jumped over a barberry-bush, And I jumped over a timber, I showed her a gay gold ring, And she showed me her finger. |
| [Ride a cock horse to Charing-Cross,] To see a young woman Jump on a white horse, With rings on her fingers And bells on her toes, And she shall have music Wherever she goes. |
| [Johnny shall have a new bonnet,] And Johnny shall go to the fair, And Johnny shall have a new ribbon To tie up his bonny brown hair. And why may not I love Johnny, And why may not Johnny love me? And why may not I love Johnny As well as another body? And here’s a leg for a stocking, And here’s a foot for a shoe, And he has a kiss for daddy, And two for his mammy also. And why may not I love Johnny? And why, &c. &c. |