The Oxford Nursery Rhyme BookThe Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones. Special sections are devoted to lullabies and dandling rhymes, toe rhymes, catches, charms, traditional street cries, riddle verses, nursery maxims, and humorous ballads. The text is further enlivened by 600 illustrations, many of them eighteenth- and nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings. |
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Page 44
... duck , Right through the middle of the head , head , head . He carried it home to his old wife Joan , And bade her a fire for to make , make , make , To roast the little duck he had shot in the brook , And he'd go and fetch her the ...
... duck , Right through the middle of the head , head , head . He carried it home to his old wife Joan , And bade her a fire for to make , make , make , To roast the little duck he had shot in the brook , And he'd go and fetch her the ...
Page 182
... duck and the duck pleased me , I fed my duck by yonder tree ; Duck goes quack , quack , Hen goes chimmy - chuck , chimmy - chuck , Cat goes fiddle - i - fee . I had a goose and the goose pleased me , I fed my goose by yonder tree ...
... duck and the duck pleased me , I fed my duck by yonder tree ; Duck goes quack , quack , Hen goes chimmy - chuck , chimmy - chuck , Cat goes fiddle - i - fee . I had a goose and the goose pleased me , I fed my goose by yonder tree ...
Page 183
... Duck goes quack , quack , Hen goes chimmy - chuck , chimmy - chuck , Cat goes fiddle - i - fee . I had a horse and the horse pleased me , I fed my horse by yonder tree ; Horse goes neigh , neigh , Cow goes moo , moo , Pig goes griffy ...
... Duck goes quack , quack , Hen goes chimmy - chuck , chimmy - chuck , Cat goes fiddle - i - fee . I had a horse and the horse pleased me , I fed my horse by yonder tree ; Horse goes neigh , neigh , Cow goes moo , moo , Pig goes griffy ...
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Aiken Drum apple baby Banbury began Bobby Shaftoe bonny carrion crow chimmy-chuck Christmas My true Cock crow Dame dance day of Christmas Derby diddle dilly DOCTOR FOSTER duck fair lady fiddle fire gammon and spinach girl gold gone goose Heigh horse Hot cross buns house that Jack J. E. Evans J. G. Rusher Jack built Jack Sprat Joan Hassall Johnny jumped Kendrew king kiss kittens legs little dog little nigger boys little pig LITTLE Robin Redbreast London mammie mee-ow mouse nose nursery rhyme Old Mother Old Mother Hubbard old woman penny pretty maid pussy cat quack Queen Richard to Robin riddle ride ring Robin to Bobbin round Say the bells says Anthony Rowley says Richard says Robin says Rowley shoe song stick Taffy tail thee thou Tommy O'Linn trot true love sent whistle wife Willy Wood wood young