Monday, October 23, 2006

My mother said
That I never should
Play with the gypsies
In the wood;
If I did she would say,
Naughty girl to disobey.
Your hair shan't curl,
Your shoes shan't shine,
You naughty girl
You shan't be mine.
My father said
That if I did
He'd bang my head
With the teapot lid.

The wood was dark
The grass was green,
Up comes Sally
With a tambourine;
Alpaca frock,
New scarf-shawl,
White straw bonnet
And a pink parasol.
I went to the river-
No ship to get across
I paid ten shillings
For an old blind horse;
I up on his back
And off in a crack,
Sally tell my mother
I shall never come back.

-Anon. (but found in a book of Nursery Rhymes for children in the section "Playtime")

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of my fave nursery rhymes.
Thanks for posting.
Used to know it off by heart.
Btw, there is a punctuation spelling error at the top there - should read 'wrought its ghost' (not "it's" - contraction of "it is")

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