Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 198
with iron and steel, With a gay ladye. Iron and steel will bend and bow, Dance oer my lady lee;Iron and steel will bend and bow, With a gay ladye. Build it up with wood and clay. Dance oer my lady lee;Build it up with wood and clay, With a gay ladye. Wood and clay will wash away, Dance oer my lady… … THEEE WAS AN OLD WOMAN There was an old woman as I ve heard tell,She went to market her eggs for to sell;She went to market all on a market-day,And she fell asleep on the Idngs highway. There came by a peddler whose name was Stout, He cut her petticoats all round about; He cut her petticoats up to…
Nursery rhymes
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