| [Little Tommy Tucker,] Sing for your supper: What shall I sing? White bread and butter. How shall I cut it Without any knife? How shall I marry Without any wife? |
[I would, if I could; if I couldn’t, how could I?]
I couldn’t without I could, could I?
Could you without you could, could ye? could ye? could ye?
You couldn’t without you could, could ye?
| [Oh that I were where I would be!] Then should I be where I am not; But where I am, there I must be, And where I would be I can not. |
| [Hiccory, diccory, dock,] The mouse run up the clock; The clock struck one, and down he run, Hiccory, diccory, dock. |