The Real Mother Goose - Unknown

THE REAL
MOTHER
GOOSE
Illustrated by
Blanche Fisher Wright
1916

A LIST OF THE RHYMES

[an alphabetical list of first lines]

[ ABC
] [ About the Bush
] [ The Alphabet
] [ An Equal
] [ An Icicle
] [ Around the Green Gravel
] [ As I Was Going Along
] [ Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
] [ Baby Dolly
] [ The Balloon
] [ The Bells
] [ Banbury Cross
] [ Bandy Legs
] [ Barber
] [ Bat, Bat
] [ Bedtime
] [ Bees
] [ Bell Horses
] [ Belleisle
] [ Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
] [ Betty Blue
] [ Billy, Billy
] [ Birds of a Feather
] [ The Bird Scarer
] [ The Black Hen
] [ The Blacksmith
] [ Blue Bell Boy
] [ Bobby Shaftoe
] [ Bobby Snooks
] [ Boy and Girl
] [ Boy and the Sparrow
] [ The Boy in the Barn
] [ The Bunch of Blue Ribbons
] [ Burnie Bee
] [ Buttons
] [ Bye, Baby Bunting
] [ Caesar's Song
] [ A Candle
] [ Candle-Saving
] [ The Cat and the Fiddle
] [ A Cherry
] [ A Chimney
] [ Christmas
] [ Christmas
] [ Clap Handies
] [ The Clever Hen
] [ The Clock
] [ The Coachman
] [ The Cock and the Hen
] [ Cock-a-Doodle-Do!
] [ Cock-a-Doodle-Do
] [ A Cock and Bull Story
] [ Cock-Crow
] [ Coffee and Tea
] [ Come Out to Play
] [ Come, Let's to Bed
] [ Comical Folk
] [ A Counting-Out Rhyme
] [ The Crooked Sixpence
] [ Cross Patch
] [ Cry, Baby
] [ Curly-Locks
] [ Cushy Cow
] [ Daffodils
] [ Dame Trot and Her Cat
] [ Dance to Your Daddie
] [ Dance, Little Baby
] [ Dance, Thumbkin, Dance
] [ Dapple-Gray
] [ The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin
] [ The Derby Ram
] [ Diddle Diddle Dumpling
] [ A Difficult Rhyme
] [ Ding, Dong, Bell
] [ Doctor Fell
] [ Doctor Foster
] [ The Donkey
] [ The Dove and the Wren
] [ Dreams
] [ Ducks and Drakes
] [ The Dusty Miller
] [ Elizabeth
] [ The Farmer and the Raven
] [ Fears and Tears
] [ Fingers and Toes
] [ The First of May
] [ Five Toes
] [ The Flying Pig
] [ For Baby
] [ For Every Evil
] [ For Want of a Nail
] [ Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, etc.
] [ Georgy Porgy
] [ The Girl and the Birds
] [ The Girl in the Lane
] [ Going to St. Ives
] [ Good Advice
] [ Goosey, Goosey, Gander
] [ The Greedy Man
] [ Handy Pandy
] [ Hark! Hark!][
]

[The Hart
] [ Hector Protector]
[Heigh-Ho, the Carrion Crow
] [ Here Goes My Lord
] [ The Hobby-Horse
] [ Hot Boiled Beans
] [ Hot Codlins
] [ Hot-Cross Buns
] [ The House That Jack Built
] [ Humpty Dumpty
] [ The Hunter of Reigate
] [ Hush-a-Bye
] [ Hush-a-Bye
] [ Hush-a-Bye
] [ I Had a Little Husband
] [ I Love Sixpence
] [ I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
] [ If All the Seas Were One Sea
] [ If Wishes Were Horses
] [ If
] [ I'll Tell You a Story
] [ Intery, Mintery
] [ Jack and His Fiddle
] [ Jack and Jill
] [ Jack Jelf
] [ Jack Jingle
] [ Jack Sprat
] [ Jack
] [ Jenny Wren
] [ Jerry Hall
] [ John Smith
] [ Just Like Me
] [ The Kilkenny Cats
] [ The King of France
] [ Ladybird
] [ Leg Over Leg
] [ Lengthening Days
] [ The Lion and the Unicorn
] [ The Little Bird
] [ Little Bo-Peep
] [ Little Boy Blue
] [ Little Fred
] [ Little Girl and Queen
] [ The Little Girl with a Curl
] [ Little Jack Horner
] [ Little Jenny Wren
] [ Little Jumping Joan
] [ Little King Boggen
] [ Little Maid
] [ A Little Man
] [ The Little Moppet
] [ The Little Mouse
] [ Little Polly Flinders
] [ Little Pussy
] [ The Lost Shoe
] [ Little Tom Tucker
] [ Lock and Key
] [ London Bridge
] [ Lucy Locket
] [ A Man and a Maid
] [ The Man in Our Town
] [ The Man in the Moon
] [ The Man in the Wilderness
] [ The Man of Bombay
] [ The Man of Derby
] [ The Man of Tobago
] [ The Man Who Had Naught
] [ March Winds
] [ Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
] [ Mary's Canary
] [ Master I Have
] [ A Melancholy Song
] [ The Merchants of London
] [ Miss Muffet
] [ The Mist
] [ Money and the Mare
] [ The Mouse and the Clock
] [ The Mulberry Bush
] [ Multiplication Is Vexation
] [ My Kitten
] [ My Little Maid
] [ My Love
] [ My Maid Mary
] [ Myself
] [ Nancy Dawson
] [ Needles and Pins
] [ A Needle and Thread
] [ Oh Dear!
] [ Old Chairs to Mend
] [ Old Grimes
] [ Old King Cole
] [ The Old Man
] [ Old Mother Goose
] [ Old Mother Hubbard
] [ The Old Woman and the Pedlar
] [ The Old Woman from France
] [ Old Woman, Old Woman
] [ The Old Woman of Gloucester
] [ The Old Woman of Harrow
] [ The Old Woman of Leeds
] [ The Old Woman of Surrey
] [ The Old Woman Under a Hill][
]

[One Misty Moisty Morning]
[One, He Loves]
[One to Ten]
[One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
] [ One, Two, Three
] [ Over the Water
] [ Pairs or Pears
] [ Pancake Day
] [ Pat-a-Cake
] [ Pease Porridge
] [ Peter Piper
] [ A Pig
] [ Pins
] [ The Piper and His Cow
] [ Pippen Hill
] [ Play Days
] [ A Plum Pudding
] [ A Thorn
] [ Polly and Sukey
] [ Poor Old Robinson Crusoe!
] [ Pretty John Watts
] [ The Pumpkin-Eater
] [ Pussy-Cat and Queen
] [ Pussy-Cat and the Dumplings
] [ Pussy-Cat by the Fire
] [ Pussy-Cat Mew
] [ The Quarrel
] [ Rain
] [ Rain
] [ Ride Away, Ride Away
] [ Ring a Ring o' Roses
] [ The Robin
] [ Robin and Richard
] [ Robin Hood and Little John
] [ Robin Redbreast
] [ Robin-a-Bobbin
] [ The Robins
] [ Rock-a-Bye, Baby
] [ Saturday, Sunday
] [ A Seasonable Song
] [ See, See
] [ See-Saw
] [ Shall We Go A-Shearing?
] [ A Ship's Nail
] [ Shoeing
] [ A Sieve
] [ Simple Simon
] [ Sing a Song of Sixpence
] [ Sing, Sing
] [ Sleep, Baby, Sleep
] [ Sneezing
] [ Solomon Grundy
] [ A Star
] [ A Strange Old Woman
] [ Sulky Sue
] [ Sunshine
] [ A Sunshiny Shower
] [ A Sure Test
] [ Swan
] [ The Tailors and the Snail
] [ Taffy
] [ The Tarts
] [ Teeth and Gums
] [ The Ten O'Clock Scholar
] [ That's All
] [ There was an Old Woman
] [ Thirty Days Hath September
] [ This Is the Way
] [ Three Blind Mice
] [ Three Children on the Ice
] [ The Three Sons
] [ Three Straws
] [ Three Wise Men of Gotham
] [ To Babylon
] [ To Market
] [ Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
] [ Tommy Snooks
] [ Tommy Tittlemouse
] [ Tongs
] [ T'Other Little Tune
] [ Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
] [ Two Birds
] [ Two Gray Kits
] [ Two Pigeons
] [ A Walnut
] [ Wee Willie Winkie
] [ A Week of Birthdays
] [ A Well
] [ What Are Little Boys Made Of?
] [ When Jenny Wren Was Young
] [ When the Snow Is on the Ground
] [ When
] [ Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?
] [ Whistle
] [ Why May Not I Love Johnny?
] [ Willy Boy
] [ Willy, Willy
] [ The Winds
] [ Winter
] [ The Woman of Exeter
] [ Young Lambs to Sell
] [ Young Roger and Dolly
]

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FIRST LINES

[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!]
[ A carrion crow sat on an oak,]
[ A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar!]
[ A duck and a drake,]
[ A farmer went trotting upon his gray mare,]
[ A hill full, a hole full,]
[ A little boy went into a barn,]
[ A little cock-sparrow sat on a green tree,]
[ A little old man of Derby,]
[ A man went a-hunting at Reigate,]
[ A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,]
[ A robin and a robin's son]
[ A sunshiny shower]
[ A swarm of bees in May]
[ A, B, C, and D,]
[ About the bush, Willie,]
[ Around the green gravel the grass grows green,]
[ As I walked by myself,]
[ As I was going to Derby all on a market-day,]
[ As I was going to sell my eggs]
[ As I was going to St. Ives]
[ As I was going up Pippen Hill,]
[ As I went through the garden gap,]
[ As I went to Bonner,]
[ As little Jenny Wren]
[ As round as an apple, as deep as a cup,]
[ As soft as silk, as white as milk,]
[ As the days grow longer]
[ As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks]
[ A-singing a comical song, song, song,]
[ At the siege of Belleisle]
[ Away, birds, away!]
[ Baa, baa, black sheep,]
[ Barber, barber, shave a pig.]
[ Bat, bat, come under my hat]
[ Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day?]
[ Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,]
[ Billy, Billy, come and play,]
[ Birds of a feather flock together,]
[ Black within and red without;]
[ Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea,]
[ Bow-wow-wow!]
[ Burnie bee, burnie bee,]
[ Buttons, a farthing a pair!]
[ Bye, baby bunting,]
[ Christmas comes but once a year,]
[ Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,]
[ Clap, clap handies,]
[ Cock, cock, cock, cock,]
[ Cock-a-doodle-do!]
[ Cocks crow in the morn]
[ Cold and raw the north wind doth blow,]
[ Come when you're called,]
[ Cross patch, draw the latch,]
[ Cry, baby, cry,]
[ Curly-locks, Curly-locks, wilt thou be mine?]
[ Cushy cow, bonny, let down thy milk,]
[ Daffy-down-dilly has come to town]
[ Dame Trot and her cat]
[ Dance to your daddie,]
[ Dance, little Baby, dance up high!]
[ Dance, Thumbkin, dance;]
[ Dear, dear! what can the matter be?]
[ Dickory, dickory, dare,]
[ Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John]
[ Ding, dong, bell,]
[ Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster,]
[ Donkey, donkey, old and gray,]
[ Doodle doodle doo,]
[ Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess,]
[ Every lady in this land]
[ Flour of England, fruit of Spain,]
[ For every evil under the sun]
[ For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;]
[ Four and Twenty tailors]
[ Friday night's dream, on Saturday told,]
[ Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,]
[ Girls and boys, come out to play,]
[ Goosey, goosey, gander,]
[ Great A, little a,]
[ Great A, little a,]
[ Handy Pandy, Jack-a-dandy,]
[ Hark, hark! the dogs do bark!]
[ Hector Protector was dressed all in green;]
[ Here am I, little jumping Joan,]
[ Here goes my lord]
[ Here sits the Lord Mayor,]
[ Here we go round the mulberry bush,]
[ Here's Sulky Sue,]
[ Hey diddle dinkety poppety pet,]
[ Hey, diddle, diddle!]
[ Hey, my kitten, my kitten,]
[ Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more,]
[ Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7,]
[ Hickety, pickety, my black hen,]
[ Hickory, dickory, dock!]
[ High diddle doubt, my candle's out]
[ Higher than a house, higher than a tree.]
[ Hot-cross Buns!]
[ How many days has my baby to play?]
[ How many miles is it to Babylon?--]
[ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;]
[ Hush, baby, my dolly, I pray you don't cry,]
[ Hush-a-bye, baby, lie still with thy daddy,]
[ Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top!]
[ Hush-a-bye, baby,]
[ I am a gold lock.]
[ I do not like thee, Doctor Fell;]
[ I had a little boy,]
[ I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen,]
[ I had a little hobby-horse,]
[ I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb,]
[ I had a little moppet,]
[ I had a little pony,]
[ I had two pigeons bright and gay,]
[ I have seen you, little mouse,]
[ I like little Pussy,]
[ I love sixpence, a jolly, jolly sixpence,]
[ I saw a ship a-sailing,]
[ I went to the wood and got it;]
[ I went up one pair of stairs.]
[ I won't be my father's Jack,]
[ If all the seas were one sea,]
[ If all the world were apple pie,]
[ If I'd as much money as I could spend,]
[ If I'd as much money as I could tell,]
[ If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.]
[ If you are to be a gentleman,]
[ If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;]
[ I'll tell you a story]
[ In a cottage in Fife]
[ Intery, mintery, cutery corn,]
[ Is John Smith within?]
[ Jack and Jill went up the hill,]
[ Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,]
[ Jack Sprat]
[ Jacky, come and give me thy fiddle,]
[ Jerry Hall, he was so small,]
[ Johnny shall have a new bonnet,]
[ Ladies and gentlemen come to supper--]
[ Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home!]
[ Leg over leg,]
[ Lend me thy mare to ride a mile.]
[ Little Betty Blue]
[ Little Bobby Snooks was fond of his books,]
[ Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,]
[ Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn!]
[ Little girl, little girl, where have you been?]
[ Little Jack Horner]
[ Little Jack Jelf]
[ Little Jack Jingle, He used to live single;]
[ Little Jenny Wren fell sick,]
[ Little King Boggen, he built a fine hall,]

LITTLE BO-PEEP
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For still they all were fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left all their tails behind 'em!
It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray
Unto a meadow hard by--
There she espied their tails, side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks she raced;
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
That each tail should be properly placed.

LITTLE BOY BLUE
Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn!
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack, fast asleep!

RAIN

Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day;
Little Johnny wants to play.

THE CLOCK
There's a neat little clock,--
In the schoolroom it stands,--
And it points to the time
With its two little hands.
And may we, like the clock,
Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right.

WINTER
Cold and raw the north wind doth blow,
Bleak in the morning early;
All the hills are covered with snow,
And winter's now come fairly.

FINGERS AND TOES
Every lady in this land
Has twenty nails, upon each hand
Five, and twenty on hands and feet:
All this is true, without deceit.

A SEASONABLE SONG
Piping hot, smoking hot.
What I've got
You have not.
Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot;
Hot gray pease, hot.

DAME TROT AND HER CAT
Dame Trot and her cat
Led a peaceable life,
When they were not troubled
With other folks' strife.
When Dame had her dinner
Pussy would wait,
And was sure to receive
A nice piece from her plate.

THREE CHILDREN ON THE ICE
Three children sliding on the ice
Upon a summer's day,
As it fell out, they all fell in,
The rest they ran away.
Oh, had these children been at school,
Or sliding on dry ground,
Ten thousand pounds to one penny
They had not then been drowned.
Ye parents who have children dear,
And ye, too, who have none,
If you would keep them safe abroad
Pray keep them safe at home.

CROSS PATCH
Cross patch, draw the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin;
Take a cup and drink it up,
Then call your neighbors in.

THE OLD WOMAN UNDER A HILL
There was an old woman
Lived under a hill;
And if she's not gone,
She lives there still.

TWEEDLE-DUM AND TWEEDLE-DEE
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee
Resolved to have a battle,
For Tweedle-dum said Tweedle-dee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew by a monstrous crow,
As big as a tar barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

OH, DEAR!
Dear, dear! what can the matter be?
Two old women got up in an apple-tree;
One came down, and the other stayed till Saturday.

OLD MOTHER GOOSE
Old Mother Goose, when
She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

LITTLE JUMPING JOAN
Here am I, little jumping Joan,
When nobody's with me
I'm always alone.
ROBIN REDBREAST
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree,
Up went Pussy-Cat, down went he,
Down came Pussy-Cat, away Robin ran,
Says little Robin Redbreast: "Catch me if you can!"
Little Robin Redbreast jumped upon a spade,
Pussy-Cat jumped after him, and then he was afraid.
Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did Pussy say?
Pussy-Cat said: "Mew, mew, mew," and Robin flew away.

PAT-A-CAKE
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,
Baker's man!
So I do, master,
As fast as I can.
Pat it, and prick it,
And mark it with T,
Put it in the oven
For Tommy and me.

MONEY AND THE MARE
"Lend me thy mare to ride a mile."
"She is lamed, leaping over a stile."
"Alack! and I must keep the fair!
I'll give thee money for thy mare."
"Oh, oh! say you so?
Money will make the mare to go!"

A MELANCHOLY SONG
Trip upon trenchers,
And dance upon dishes,
My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
She bid me go lightly,
And come again quickly,
For fear the young men should do me some harm.
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
What naughty tricks they put upon me?
They broke my pitcher
And spilt the water,
And huffed my mother,
And chid her daughter,
And kissed my sister instead of me.

JACK
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candlestick.

GOING TO ST. IVES
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?