Rymths and Rittles
LITTLE MISS MUFFET

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey, there came a great spider, and sat down beside her, and fightened Miss Muffet away!

LITTLE TOMMY TUCKER

Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper, What shall he eat? white bread and butter. How shall he cut it without e'er a knife? How shall he marry without any wife?

GEORGIE PORGIE

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play Georgie Porgie ran away.

WEE WILLIE WINKIE

Wee Willie Winkie runs though the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his night-grown, rapping at the window, crying at the lock, "Are the babies in their beds, for now it's eight o'clock!"

BYE BABY BUNTING

Bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting,to get a little rabbits's skin to wrap the baby bunting in.

A DILLAR A DOLLAR

A dillar, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, and now you come at noon.

BOBBY SHAFOE

Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, silver buckles at his knee: he'll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe!

THERE WERE TWO BLACKBIRDS

There were two blackbirds, sitting on a hill, The one named Jack, The other named Jill Fly away, Jack! Fly away, Jill! Come again, Jack! Come again, Jill!

OLD KING COLE

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he: He called for his pipes and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three!

HUMPTY DUMPTY

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE

There was an old waman who lived in a shoe: She had so many children she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth, without any bead: She whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed.

ROCK-A-BYE BABY

Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top! When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, down will come baby, cradle and all..

RUB A DUB DUB

Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub, and who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Turn 'em out, knaves all three.

JACK AND JILL

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot As fast as he could caper, went to bed and plastered his head with vinegar and brown paper.

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. the clock struck one, the mouse ran down; Hickry dickory, dock