Wonder Book of Mother Goose

by Choate, Florence; Curtis, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780756762650
• ISBN10: 0756762650
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co

Table of Contents

A Carrion crow sat on an oak	81	(1)
A cat came fiddling out of a barn	82	(146)
A curious discourse about an apple-pie	228
A diller, a dollar	84	(120)
A duck and a drake	204
A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare	30	(78)
A fox went out in a hungry plight	108	(42)
A frog he would a-wooing go	150
A gentleman of good account	40	(136)
A jolly old sow once lived in a sty	176	(44)
A little cock sparrow sat on a green tree	220
A little old man and I fell out	98	(64)
All of a row	162	(67)
A long-tailed pig, and a short-tailed pig	229
A man of words and not of deeds	87	(100)
A man went a-hunting at Reigate	187
An apple-pie, when it looks nice	14	(165)
A nick and a nock	179	(57)
An old woman was sweeping her house	236
A pie sate on a pear-tree	121	(39)
Apple-pie alphabet	160
A puzzle	15	(63)
A riddle	78	(140)
Around the green gravel the grass grows green	218
As I walked by myself	155	(17)
As I was a-going by a little pig-sty	172	(32)
As I was going along, long, long	204
As I was going by Charing Cross	153	(19)
As I was going o'er Westminster Bridge	172
As I was going to sell my eggs	12	(26)
As I was going to St. Ives	38	(12)
As I was going up Pippen Hill	50	(132)
As I went through the garden gap	182
As little Jenny Wren	68	(152)
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup	220
As soft as silk, as white as milk	81	(17)
As Tommy Snooks and Betsey Brooks	98	(133)
A sunshiny shower	231
A swarm of bees in May	122
As white as milk	36	(40)
A thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thachet a-thatching	76	(102)
At the siege of Belleisle	178	(41)
Awake, arise, pull out your eyes	219
A was an angler	112	(48)
A was an apple-pie	160
A was an Archer	143	(79)
Away, birds, away!	222
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?	12	(26)
Barber, barber, shave a pig	38	(120)
Bat, bat	158	(53)
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray	211
Billy, Billy, come and play	67
Billy Pringle's pig	39
Birds, beasts and fishes	16	(159)
Birds of a feather flock together	175	(59)
Black we are, but much admired	234
Bless you, bless you, burney-bee	179
Blow, wind, blow!	129
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea	67
Bow, wow, says the dog	39	(79)
Bow, wow, wow	118
Brow brinky	82	(73)
Bryan O'Lin and his wife and wife's mother	155
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear	28	(205)
Buttons a farthing a pair	233
Buzz and hum	82	(1)
Buzz, quoth the blue fly	83	(10)
Bye, baby bunting	93	(95)
Charley, Charley, stole the barley	188
Charley, Warley, had a cow	182
Cherries are ripe, cherries are ripe	145	(3)
Christmas comes but once a year	148
Christmas days	126
Cock a doodle doo!	51	(48)
Cold and raw the north wind doth blow	99	(103)
Come hither, little puppy dog	202
Come hither, sweet robin	105	(33)
Come, let's to bed	138	(87)
Come, my children, come away	225
Come take up your hats, and away let us haste	198	(33)
Come when you're called	231
Could ye!	133	(60)
``Croak!'' said the Toad, ``I'm hungry, I think''	193
Cross patch, draw the latch	122	(57)
Cry, baby, cry	179	(8)
Cuckoo, cuckoo	187
Curly locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine?	80	(49)
Cut them on Monday, you cut them for health	129
Daffy-down-dilly is new come to town	35	(140)
Dame, get up and bake your pies	175
Dame Trot and her cat	134	(14)
Dance a baby diddy	148
Dance, little baby, dance up high	138	(86)
Dance to your daddy	224
Dickery, dickery, dare	63	(93)
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John	156
Diddle-y-diddle-y-dumpty	149
Ding, dong, bell	130
Ding, dong, darrow	94	(16)
Dingty, diddledy, my mammy's maid	110	(51)
Doctor Faustus was a good man	161
Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster	106	(84)
Dolly and her mamma	190	(1)
Dolly, you're a naughty girl	190
Doodle doodle doo	161	(35)
Early to bed, and early to rise	196
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread	156
Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy, and Bess	111
Elsie Marley is grown so fine	32	(92)
Fa, la, la, la, lal, de	124	(93)
F for fig	217
Fiddle cum fee	82	(2)
Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee	84
Fiddle, faddle, feedle	3	(12)
``Fire! Fire!'' said the town crier	15	(157)
Five toes	172
For every evil under the sun	62	(29)
Formed long ago, yet made to-day	91	(125)
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost	216
Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail	62	(158)
Friday night's dream	220
Gay go up and gay go down	164	(68)
Georgey, Porgey, pudding and pie	232
Girls and boys, come out to play	204
God bless the master of this house	10	(82)
Good people all, of every sort	92	(32)
Goosey, goosey, gander	124	(51)
Go to bed first, a golden purse	175
Great A, little a, bouncing B	42	(56)
Gunpowder treason	98	(59)
Gushy cow bonny	157	(23)
Handy-Spandy, Jack-a-dandy	180
Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark	94
Have you ever heard of Billy Pringle's pig?	39
Have you seen the old woman of Banbury Cross?	15	(177)
Hector Protector was dressed all in green	192	(5)
He loves me	197
Here a little child I stand	154
Here am I, little jumping Joan	104	(31)
Here comes a poor widow from Babylon	135
Here goes my lord	82	(14)
Here's Sulky Sue	96
Here we go round the jingo-ring	49	(30)
Here we go round the mulberry-bush	79	(99)
Here we go up, up, up	178
He that would thrive	91
Hey, diddle, diddle!	32	(16)
Hey, dorolot, dorolot!	48	(73)
Hey, my kitten, my kitten	121
Hey, rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub	119
Hickety, pickety, my black hen	56	(105)
Hickory, dickory, dock	161
Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen	101
High diddle ding	70	(103)
High-diddle doubt, my candle's out	173
History of John Gilpin	20	(48)
Hot-cross buns!	68	(61)
How do you do, neighbour?	129	(59)
How many miles is it to Babylon?	188
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall	163
Hush-a-bye, baby, Daddy is near	148
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top	16	(124)
Hush thee, my baby	140	(94)
Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry	234
I am a gold lock	70
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell	49	(97)
If all the seas were one sea	146
If all the world were water	91	(109)
If I'd as much money as I could spend	200
If ``ifs'' and ``ands''	149
If wishes were horses	88	(130)
If you are a gentleman, as I suppose you be	218
If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger	146
I had a little castle upon the sea-shore	138
I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell	47	(140)
I had a little doggie that used to sit and beg	187
I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen	105
I had a little hobby-horse	49	(95)
I had a little husband	144	(75)
I had a little moppet	219
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear	14	(215)
I had a little pony	229
I have been to market, my lady, my lady	36	(50)
I have four sisters beyond the sea	86	(102)
I have seen you, little mouse	188	(38)
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm	226
I'll sing you a song	81	(20)
I'll tell you a story	101
I love my love with an A, because he's Agreeable	57	(135)
I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence	192
I love you well, my little brother	80	(83)
In a cottage in Fife	163
In Egypt was a dragon dire	34	(54)
In fir tar is	88
In marble walls as white as milk	11	(27)
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn	38	(193)
In the month of February	231
I saw a ship a-sailing	46	(150)
I saw three ships come sailing by	196
Is John Smith within?	133
It was on a merry time	71	(78)
I will sing you a song	149
I would if I could	133
Jack and Jill went up the hill	18	(82)
Jack, be nimble	100	(132)
Jack Jingle went 'prentice	232
Jack Sprat could eat no fat	60	(158)
Jack Sprat had a cat	218
Jack Sprat's pig	182	(17)
Jacky, come give me thy fiddle	199
January brings the snow	142
Jenny was a pretty girl	119
Jenny Wren	71	(94)
Jenny Wren fell sick	165	(66)
Jerry Hall, he is so small	231
Jerry, James and John	216
John Cook had a little gray mare; he, haw, hum!	7	(13)
John Gilpin was a citizen	20	(193)
Johnny shall have a new bonnet	213
Kitty alone and I	64
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home	56
Ladybug, ladybug	48	(175)
Lavender blue and rosemary green	223
Leg over leg	66	(159)
Lend me thy mare to ride a mile?	225
``Let us go to the wood,'' says this pig	172
``Let us go to the woods,'' says Richard to Robin	157
Little Betty Blue lost her holiday shoe	122
Little Blue Betty lived in a lane	43	(73)
Little Bob Snooks was fond of his books	116	(100)
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep	216
Little Boy Blue, go blow your horn	38	(14)
Little brown mouse	52	(172)
Little drops of water	224
Little girl, little girl, where have you been?	130	(94)
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner	224
Little Jack Jelf	148
Little King Boggen he built a fine hall	33
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet	6	(90)
Little Nancy Etticoat	96	(50)
Little Polly Flinders	146	(33)
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a rail	179
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree	60	(145)
Little star that shines so bright	205
Little Tee Wee	63	(105)
Little Tommy Tittlemouse	168
Little Tommy Tucker	110
Little Tom Twig bought a fine bow and arrow	30	(21)
Little Willie Winkle runs through the town	51	(19)
Lock and key	70
London Bridge is falling down	28	(195)
Long legs, crooked thighs	223
Lucy Locket lost her pocket	56	(135)
Maggie's pet	191
March winds and April showers	156	(79)
Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bo-peep	235
Mary had a little lamb	100	(91)
Mary had a pretty bird	191
Mary, Mary, quite contrary	90	(26)
Master I have, and I am his man	116	(107)
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John	223
Merry are the bells, and merry would they ring	200	(34)
Molly, my sister, and I fell out	234
Monday alone	207
Monday's bairn is fair of face	43
Multiplication is vexation	7	(102)
My dear, do you know	109
My father he died, but I can't tell you how	104
My father left me three acres of land	56
My lady wind, my lady wind	3	(77)
My little brother	80	(103)
My little old man and I fell out	183
My maid Mary she minds her dairy	89	(21)
My mammy's maid	110	(76)
Needles and pins, needles and pins	186
Nose, nose, jolly red nose	58	(148)
Now we dance, looby, looby, looby	206
Now what do you think?	182	(48)
Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Johnny's so long at the fair	230
Oh, dear, what can the matter be? two old women, etc	118
Oh, deary, deary me	66	(148)
Oh, the rusty, dusty, rusty miller!	214
``Oh, what have you got for dinner, Mrs. Bond?''	134	(96)
Oh, who is so merry, so merry, heigh ho!	230
Old father Grey Beard	120
Old Grimes is dead, that good old man	118
Old King Cole	60
Old Mother Goose	1	(3)
Old Mother Hubbard	4	(137)
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye	141
Old rhyme on cutting nails	129	(78)
Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?	207
Once I saw a little bird	135
On Christmas Eve I turned the spit	116	(101)
One-ery, two-ery	217
One, he loves; two, he loves	210
One misty moisty morning	161
One old Oxford ox opening oysters	44
One to make ready	36	(70)
One, two, buckle my shoe	106
One, two, three	58	(165)
One, two, three, four	223	(6)
One, two, three, four, five	229
Over the water, and over the sea	111
Para-mara, dictum, domine	86	(46)
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man!	132
Pease porridge hot	91
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater	58
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers	28	(192)
Peter White	220
Pit, pat, well-a-day	214
Pitty Patty Polt	14	(49)
Playmates	63	(35)
Please to remember	98	(116)
Polly, put the kettle on	214
Poor Babes in the wood	109	(98)
Poor Dog Bright	207
Poor Old Robinson Crusoe!	163
Pray, playmates agree	63
Pretty John Watts	52	(147)
Punch and Judy	199
Pussy-cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings	120	(105)
Pussy Cat Mole	225
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?	59
Pussy-cat, sits by the fire	52	(45)
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, you sit in the sun	97	(96)
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Pie!	193
Rain, rain, go away	174
Rain, rain, go to Spain	145
Riddle me, riddle me, ree	91
Riddle-me, riddle-me, riddle-me-ree?	57
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross	12, 36	(14)
Ride away, ride away, Johnny shall ride	14	(131)
Ride, baby, ride	145	(85)
Ring-a-ring-a roses	230
Ring around a rosie	118
Robert Barnes, fellow fine	93	(8)
Robert Rolley rolled a round roll round	101	(118)
Robin and Richard were two pretty men	219
Robin Hood, Robin Hood	185
Robin the Bobbin, the big bouncing Ben	96
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green	15	(130)
Rosy, and Colin, and Dun	145
Round the jingo-ring	49	(30)
Round the mulberry-bush	79	(20)
See a pin and pick it up	99
See, saw, Margery Daw sold her bed and lay upon straw	70	(74)
See, saw, Margery Daw, Jenny shall have a new master	144
See-saw, sacaradown	58	(171)
See, see. What shall I see?	229
Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare	47	(107)
Simple Simon met a pieman	154
Sing a song of sixpence	68
Sing ivy	56	(28)
Sing, sing, what shall I sing?	84
Sing, song! merry go round	46
Six little mice sat down to spin	8	(171)
Snail, snail, come out of your hole	179
Solomon Grundy	89
So, merrily, trip and go	12	(185)
Speak when you're spoken to	197
St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain	88	(78)
Sukey, you shall be my wife	166	(25)
Sweet Maggie had a little bird	191
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief	99
Tell-tale-tit	98	(25)
Ten little children standing in a line	123
That's all	122
The alphabet	112	(119)
The art of good driving's a paradox quite	231
The Babes in the Wood	40	(178)
The calf, the goose, the bee	218
The champions of Christendom	34	(171)
The child and the star	205	(26)
The cock doth crow	231
The cock's on the housetop blowing his horn	193
The cuckoo's a fine bird	162
The days of the month	96
The dog will come when he is called	16	(140)
The dove and the wren	156	(1)
The dove says coo, coo, what shall I do?	156	(34)
The fair maid who, the first of May	190	(10)
The fat man of Bombay	200
The first day of Christmas	126	(86)
The fox and his wife they had a great strife	212
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain	29	(79)
The gray goose is gone	108	(111)
The hart he loves the high wood	219
The house that Jack built	168
The King of France went up the hill	99	(112)
The King of France, and the King of Spain	211	(1)
The King of France, with twenty thousand men	211
The lion and the unicorn	90
The little clock	11	(70)
The man in the moon came down too soon	81	(12)
The man in the wilderness asked me	93	(129)
The miller he grinds his corn, his corn	222
The north wind doth blow	11	(225)
The old woman and her pig	236
The old woman of Exeter	141	(83)
The old woman must stand at the tub, tub, tub	224
The piper and his cow	48
The Queen of Hearts	44	(97)
There dwelt an old woman at Exeter	141	(42)
There once were two cats of Kilkenny	183
There's a neat little clock	11	(51)
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile	62	(138)
There was a fat man of Bombay	200
There was a frog lived in a well	64	(54)
There was a girl in our towne	118	(3)
There was a jolly miller	121	(15)
There was a jovial beggar	136	(41)
There was a lady loved a swine	177	(3)
There was a little boy and a little girl	180
There was a little boy went into a barn	162	(35)
There was a little girl	197
There was a little green house	78	(5)
There was a little guinea-pig	83
There was a little man and he had a little gun	82	(48)
There was a little man, and he woo'd a little maid	130	(88)
There was a little woman, as I've been told	218
There was a mad man	132	(71)
There was a man, and he had naught	203
There was a man and he was mad	50	(40)
There was a man of our town	90
There was a monkey climb'd up a tree	33	(108)
There was an old crow	141
There was an old man and he had a calf	122	(22)
There was an old man of Tobago	144	(82)
There was an old man who lived in a wood	226
There was an old soldier of Bister	87
There was an old woman, and what do you think?	43	(23)
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell	66	(35)
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all	101	(44)
There was an old woman had three cows	145	(71)
There was an old woman had three sons	216
There was an old woman lived under a hill	190	(6)
There was an old woman of Leeds	196
There was an old woman sold puddings and pies	140
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket	88
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe	52	(132)
There was an old woman who rode on a broom	184
There was an owl lived in an oak	3	(45)
There was a piper had a cow	48	(187)
There were three jovial Welshmen	235
There were two birds sat on a stone	124
There were two blackbirds sitting on a hill	62	(22)
The rose is red, the violet blue	84
The Song of five Toes	47	(7)
The spider and the fly	54	(139)
The toad and the frog	193	(24)
The way we ride	217
Thirty days hath September	96	(78)
This is the death of Little Jenny Wren	174
This is the house that Jack built	168
This is the way the ladies ride	94
This little pig went to market	47	(193)
Thomas A Tattamus took two T's	240
Three blind mice, see how they run!	155
Three children sliding on the ice	59	(149)
Three little kittens lost their mittens	208
Three men in a tub	119	(75)
Three wise men of Gotham	194
Tit, tat, toe	149	(68)
To market ride the gentlemen	217	(6)
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig	223
To market, to market, to buy a penny bun	116
Tommy Snooks and Betsey Brooks	98	(107)
Tommy Trot, a man of law	205
Tom, Tom, the piper's son, he learned to play when he was young	102
Tom, Tom, the piper's son stole a pig, and away he run	30	(148)
Toss up my darling, toss him up high	178
Trip and go, heave and ho!	12
Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee	10	(87)
Twinkle, twinkle, little star	97
Two legs sat upon three legs	59
Two little dogs	32	(154)
Two little kittens, one stormy night	186
Two, three and four legs	59	(52)
Up hill and down dale	111	(703)
Up hill spare me	814
Upon St. Paul's steeple stands a tree	141	(37)
V and I	178
Wash me and comb me	154	(39)
We are all in the dumps	193
We are three brethren out of Spain	29	(62)
What a fine bird I be	91
What are little boys made of, made of?	89	(108)
What is the news of the day?	197	(20)
What is the rhyme for poringer?	217
What shoemaker makes shoes without leather?	48	(135)
When a twister a twisting, will twist him a twist	183
When good King Arthur ruled this land	133	(47)
When I was a bachelor I lived by myself	180
When I was a little boy	140
When I was a little girl, about seven years old	120	(91)
When little Fred	211
When the wind is in the east	7	(171)
When V and I together meet	178
``Where are you going, my pretty maid?''	76	(97)
``Where have you been all the day?''	173
Where should a baby rest?	78	(121)
Whistle, daughter, whistle; whistle, daughter dear	199
Who killed Cock Robin?	8	(186)
Why is pussy in bed, pray?	194
Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?	52	(2)
``Will you walk into my parlour?'' said the spider to the fly	54	(168)
With a hop, step and a jump	222
Yankee Doodle went to town	185
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see?	132
Young lambs to sell!	101