The Real Mother Goose

by Blanche Fisher Wright

Table of Contents

Little Boy Blue

Fingers and Toes

A Seasonable Song

Dame Trot and Her Cat

Three Children on the Ice

The Old Woman under a Hill

Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee

Old Mother Goose

Little Jumping Joan

Money and the Mare

Robin Redbreast

A Melancholy Song

Going to St. Ives

Thirty Days Hath September

Come Out to Play

If Wishes Were Horses

Old Chairs To Mend

Robin and Richard

A Man and a Maid

Here Goes My Lord

When Jenny Wren Was Young

Three Wise Men of Gotham

The Hunter of Reigate

Little Polly Flinders

Ride Away, Ride Away

Pussy-Cat and Queen

Heigh-Ho, the Carrion Crow

A Needle and Thread

The Man in Our Town

Wee Willie Winkie

Three Blind Mice

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Lengthening Days

One, Two, Three

The Dove and the Wren

Shall We Go A-Shearing?

Goosey, Goosey, Gander

Old Mother Hubbard

The Cock and the Hen

Why May I Not Love Johnny?

The Girl in the Lane

Dance to Your Daddie

One Misty Moisty Morning

Robin Hood and Little John

The Old Woman from France

Teeth and Gums

T'Other Little Tune

If All the Seas Were One Sea

Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, and Nose

The Lion and the Unicorn

The Merchants of London

I Had a Little Husband

I'll Tell You a Story

A Strange Old Woman

Sleep, Baby, Sleep

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

The Cat and the Fiddle

A Counting-Out Rhyme

Jack and His Fiddle

Hot Boiled Beans

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Tommy Tittlemouse

The Hobby-Horse

The Mulberry Bush

Young Lambs To Sell

Boy and the Sparrow

Old Woman, Old Woman

The First of May

The House That Jack Built

Saturday, Sunday

Little Jenny Wren

The Old Woman and the Pedlar

The Little Moppet

I Saw a Ship A-Sailing

The Man in the Moon

The Man of Bombay

Poor Old Robinson Crusoe!

A Difficult Rhyme

Pretty John Watts

I Love Sixpence

Bye, Baby Bunting

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Cock-a-Doodle-Do!

That Little Girl with a Curl

Cock and Bull Story

Fears and Tears

The Kilkenny Cats

A Week of Birthdays

The Man Who Had Naught

The Tailors and the Snail

Around the Green Gravel

Intery, Mintery

As I Was Going Along

Hector Protector

Rock-a-Bye, Baby

The Man in the Wilderness

Little Jack Horner

The Bird Scarer

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray

Needles and Pins

Pussy-Cat and the Dumplings

Dance, Thumbkin, Dance

The Little Bird

Birds of a Feather

The Dusty Miller

The Ten O'Clock Scholar

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo

The Old Woman of Leeds

The Boy in the Barn

The Pumpkin-Eater

Dance, Little Baby

For Want of a Nail

Ring a Ring o' Roses

The Crooked Sixpence

This Is the Way

Ducks and Drakes

Little Girl and Queen

The King of France

Come, Let's to Bed

What Are Little Boys Made Of?

The Girl and the Birds

Little Tom Tucker

Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?

The Old Woman of Gloucester

Multiplication Is Vexation

Little King Boggen

The Old Woman of Harrow

Young Roger and His Dolly

The Piper and His Cow

The Man of Derby

There Was an Old Woman

The Old Woman of Surrey

The Little Mouse

The Man of Tobago

Ding, Dong Bell

A Sunshiny Shower

The Farmer and the Raven

Polly and Sukey

The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin

The Mouse and the Clock

The Bunch of Blue Ribbons

The Woman of Exeter

Pussy-Cat by the Fire

When the Snow Is on the Ground

Teeth and Gums

Thirty white horses upon a red hill,

Now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still.

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