The only true Mother Goose melodies : an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition published and copyrighted in Boston in the year 1833 by Munroe & Francis ; (1905)
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 52
Once in my life I married a wife, And where do you think I found her ?On Gretna Green, in velvet sheen, And I took up a stick to pound her.She jumped over a barberry-bush, And I jumped over a timber,I showed her a gay gold ring, And she showed me her finger. 40
Nursery rhymes
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