The Real Mother Goose

by Wright, Blanche Fisher; Maccarone, Grace

• ISBN13: 9780590225175
• ISBN10: 0590225170
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Summary

For nearly a century, The Real Mother Goose® has delighted young children!

Author Biography

Grace Maccarone is the author of many children's books, including Mother, May I?; Itchy Itchy Chicken Pox; and Bless Me: A Child's Goodnight Prayer. She lives in Scarsdale, New York.

Table of Contents

A, B, C, and D	49
About the bush, Willie	33
A carrion crow sat on an oak	29	(65)
A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar!	94	(10)
A duck and a drake	104	(19)
A farmer went trotting upon his gray mare	123
A hill full, a hole full	39	(58)
A little boy went into a barn	97
A little cock-sparrow sat on a green tree	66	(50)
A little old man of Derby	116
A man went a-hunting at Reigate	25	(51)
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose	76
A robin and a robin's son	52	(36)
Around the green gravel the grass grows green	88
As I walked by myself	85	(4)
As I was going along, along	89
As I was going to Derby all on a market-day	64
As I was going to St. Ives	16	(93)
As I was going to sell my eggs	109
As I was going up Pippen Hill	26	(95)
As I went through the garden gap	121
As I went to Bonner	110	(1)
As little Jenny Wren	110
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup	83
As soft as silk, as white as milk	73
As the days grow longer	37	(41)
As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks	78	(44)
A sunshiny shower	122
A swarm of bees in May	17	(64)
At the siege of Belleisle	81	(9)
Away, birds, away!	90
Baa, baa, black sheep	58
Barber, barber, shave a pig	24	(49)
Bat, bat	73	(40)
Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day?	113
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray	90
``Billy, Billy, come and play''	89	(4)
Birds of a feather flock together	93
Black within and red without	87	(40)
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea	127
Bow-wow-wow!	88
Burnie bee, burnie bee	25	(36)
Buttons, a farthing a pair!	61	(16)
Bye, baby bunting	77
Christmas comes but once a year	28	(95)
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat	123
Clap, clap handies	28	(53)
Cock-a-doodle-do!	81
``Cock, cock, cock, cock''	44	(34)
Cocks crow in the morn	78
Cold and raw the north wind doth blow	12	(65)
Come when you're called	77
Cross patch, draw the latch	13	(45)
Cry, baby, cry	58
Curly-locks, Curly-locks, wilt thou be mine?	39
Cushy cow, bonny, let down thy milk	32	(15)
Daffy-down-dilly has come to town	47
Dame Trot and her cat	13	(88)
Dance, little Baby, dance up high!	101
Dance, Thumbkin, dance	92
Dance to your daddie	50
Dear, dear! what can the matter be?	14	(10)
Dickory, dickory, dare	24	(13)
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John	37	(85)
Ding, dong, bell	122
Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster	36	(68)
Donkey, donkey, old and gray	104	(17)
Doodle doodle doo	121
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess	28
Every lady in this land	12	(43)
Flour of England, fruit of Spain	55
For every evil under the sun	32	(69)
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost	101
Four and Twenty tailors	88
Friday night's dream, on Saturday told	84
Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie	32
Girls and boys, come out to play	17	(26)
Goosey, goosey, gander	43
Great A, little a	30	(25)
Great A, little a	55
Handy Pandy, Jack-a-dandy	49	(26)
Hark, hark! the dogs do bark!	75	(14)
Hector Protector was dressed all in green	89
Here am I, little jumping Joan	14	(7)
Here goes my lord	21	(34)
Here sits the Lord Mayor	55	(13)
Here's Sulky Sue	68
Here we go round the mulberry bush	65
Hey, diddle, diddle!	60
Hey diddle dinkety poppety pet	56
Hey, my kitten, my kitten	53	(44)
Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more	97
Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7	60
Hickety, pickety, my black hen	39	(86)
Hickory, dickcry, dock!	125
High diddle doubt, my candle's out	101
Higher than a house, higher than a tree	94	(33)
Hot-cross Buns!	127
How many days has my baby to play?	28	(29)
How many miles is it to Babylon?	57
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall	40	(7)
Hush-a-bye, baby	47	(1)
Hush-a-bye, baby, lie still with thy daddy	47
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top!	25
Hush, baby, my dolly, I pray you don't cry	17	(39)
``I am a gold lock''	56	(4)
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell	60
If all the seas were one sea	53	(51)
If all the world were apple pie	104
If I'd as much money as I could spend	19	(46)
If I'd as much money as I could tell	65
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride	19	(37)
If you are to be a gentleman	56	(72)
If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger	128
I had a little boy	44
I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen	21	(44)
I had a little hobby-horse	65
I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb	57	(15)
I had a little moppet	72	(11)
I had a little pony	83
I had two pigeons bright and gay	55	(62)
I have seen you, little mouse	117
I like little Pussy	62
I'll tell you a story	57	(20)
I love sixpence, a jolly, jolly sixpence	77	(1)
In a cottage in Fife	78	(10)
Intery, mintery, cutery corn	88
I saw a ship a-sailing	73
Is John Smith within?	33	(84)
I went to the wood and got it	117
``I went up one pair of stairs''	28	(25)
I won't be my father's Jack	53
Jack and Jill went up the hill	49
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick	16	(31)
Jack Sprat	47	(14)
``Jacky, come and give me thy fiddle''	61
Jerry Hall, he was so small	37	(8)
Johnny shall have a new bonnet	45	(16)
Ladies and gentlemen come to supper	61	(26)
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home!	87
Leg over leg	23
``Lend me thy mare to ride a mile''	14	(86)
Little Betty Blue	100
Little Bobby Snooks was fond of his books	72
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep	11	(1)
Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn!	11	(94)
``Little girl, little girl, where have you been?''	105
Little Jack Horner	90
Little Jack Jelf	45	(53)
Little Jack Jingle	98
Little Jenny Wren fell sick	71	(42)
Little King Boggen, he built a fine hall	113
``Little maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou?''	108
Little Miss Muffet	39	(1)
Little Nanny Etticoat	39
Little Polly Flinders	26
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree	14	(50)
Little Tommy Tittlemouse	64	(46)
Little Tom Tucker	110
Lives in winter	96	(24)
London Bridge is broken down	120
Long legs, crooked things	98
Lucy Locket lost her pocket	23	(97)
March winds and April showers	120
Margaret wrote a letter	94
Mary had a pretty bird	93
Mary, Mary, quite contrary	90
Master I have, and I am his man	41
Mister East gave a feast	26	(57)
Molly, my sister and I fell out	83	(4)
Monday's child is fair of face	87	(26)
Multiplication is vexation	113
My little old man and I fell out	98
My maid Mary she minds the dairy	76
Nancy Dawson was so fine	48	(44)
Needles and pins, needles and pins	92	(35)
Oh, dear, what can the matter be?	127
Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock	96
Old Grimes is dead, that good old man	87
Old King Cole	83
Old Mother Goose, when	14	(29)
Old Mother Hubbard	43
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye	30	(11)
``Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?''	41	(52)
Once I saw a little bird	93
One, he loves; two, he loves	73
One misty moisty morning	50	(30)
One, two, buckle my shoe	80
One, two, three, four, five	41	(66)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5!	107
On Saturday night	69	(27)
Over the water	96
Over the water, and over the sea	85
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake	14	(88)
Pease porridge hot	102
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater	98	(9)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers	107
Piping hot, smoking hot	12	(112)
Polly, put the kettle on	124
Poor old Robinson Crusoe!	76	(1)
Pretty John Watts	77	(15)
Pussy-cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings	92
Pussy-cat Mew jumped over a coal	83
``Pussy-cat, pussy-cat''	26	(102)
Pussy-cat sits by the fire	128
Rain, rain, go away	11	(39)
Rain, rain, go to Spain	50	(57)
Read my riddle, I pray	107
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross	30
Ride away, ride away	26	(76)
Ring a ring o' roses	102
``Robert Barnes, my fellow fine''	80
Robin-a-Bobbin	33
Robin and Richard were two pretty men	20	(30)
Robin Hood, Robin Hood	50	(39)
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green	89
Saw ye aught of my love a-coming from the market?	75
See a pin and pick it up	41
See-saw, Margery Daw	33	(50)
See, see! What shall I see?	83	(17)
Shoe the colt	100
Simple Simon met a pieman	35	(27)
Sing a song of sixpence	62	(58)
Sing, sing, what shall I sing?	120
Sleep, baby, sleep	58
Solomon Grundy	24	(98)
Swan, swan, over the sea	122
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief	113
The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn	84
The dove says coo, coo, what shall I do?	41	(25)
The fair maid who, the first of May	66
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain	47	(47)
The greedy man is he who sits	94
The hart he loves the high wood	75	(30)
The King of France went up the hill	105	(23)
The little robin grieves	128
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown	56	(17)
The Man in the Moon came tumbling down	73	(28)
The Man in the Moon looked out of the moon	101
The man in the wilderness	89	(25)
The north wind doth blow	114
The Queen of Hearts	107
There came an old woman from France	52	(76)
There dwelt an old woman at Exeter	128
There's a neat little clock	12	(90)
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile	102
There was a fat man of Bombay	75	(43)
There was a little boy and a little girl	118
There was a little girl who had a little curl	84
There was a little man	21	(15)
There was a little man, and he had a little gun	36	(85)
There was a little woman, as I've been told	121
There was a man and he had naught	88
There was a man in our town	30	(22)
There was an old man	52	(70)
There was an old man of Tobago	122
There was an old woman	13	(44)
There was an old woman, and what do you think?	57	(14)
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell	71	(9)
There was an old woman had three sons	80	(37)
There was an old woman in Surrey	117
There was an old woman of Gloucester	112	(2)
There was an old woman of Harrow	114
There was an old woman of Leeds	97	(3)
There was an old woman sat spinning	100
There was an old woman tossed in a basket	66	(50)
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe	116	(1)
There was a piper had a cow	116
There were once two cats of Kilkenny	87
There were two birds sat on a stone	23	(57)
The two gray kits	80
Thirty days hath September	17	(35)
Thirty white horses upon a red hill	52	(16)
This is the house that Jack built	68	(34)
This is the way the ladies ride	102
This little pig went to market	35	(1)
Three blind mice! See how they run!	35
Three children sliding on the ice	13	(109)
Three straws on a staff	122
Three wise men of Gotham	25	(83)
``To bed! To bed''	108
To make your candles last for aye	85
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig	19	(68)
Tommy's tears and Mary's fears	87
Tom, Tom, the piper's son	77
Trip upon trenchers	16	(7)
'Twas once upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young	23
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee	13	(68)
Twelve pairs hanging high	81	(35)
Up at Piccadilly, oh!	116
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town	33	(75)
What are little boys made of, made of?	108	(13)
``What is the news of the day''	121
What is the rhyme for porringer?	76	(42)
When I was a bachelor	118
When I was a little girl, about seven years old	109
When little Fred went to bed	58	(54)
``Where are you going, my pretty maid?''	112	(1)
``Whistle, daughter, whistle''	113	(11)
Who killed Cock Robin?	124	(1)
``Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?''	124
Willy, Willy Wilkin	97	(17)
Young Roger came tapping at Dolly's window	114
``You owe me five shillings''	105
You shall have an apple	84