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A, B, C, tumble down dee	160
A carrion crow sat on an oak	56
A cat came fiddling out of a barn	102
A donkey walks on four legs	164
A diller, a dollar	163
A duck and a drake	107
A kid, a kid, my father bought	6
A little old man and I fell out	189
A man of words and not of deeds	122
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose	112
A sempstress that sews	120
A swarm of bees in May	121
Aaron said unto Moses	49
About the bush, Willy	178
All hail to the moon ! All hail to thee!	168
Around the green gravel the grass grows green	186
As I go round ring by ring	152
As I was going o'er Westminster bridge	217
As I was going by Charing Cross	15
As I was going to St. Ives	117
As I was going to sell my eggs	115
As I was going up Pippen-hill	181
As I was walking o'er little Moorfields	58
As I went over Lincoln bridge	111
As I went over the water	54
As I went through the garden gap	117
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup	112
As Tommy Snooks, and Bessy Brooks	171
Awa', birds, away	187
Baby and I	134

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Bah, bah, black sheep	176
Barber, barber, shave a pig	177
Barnaby Bright he was a sharp cur	76, 207
Bat, bat	149
Bell horses , bell horses	147
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray	49
Betty's gone a milking, mother, mother	187
Black we are, but much admired	218
Bobby Shafto's gone to sea	18
Bounce Buckram velvet's dear	121
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear	212
Bryan O'Lin, and his wife, and wife's mother	55
Bryan O'Lin had no watch to put on	212
Buff says Buff to all his men	136, 246
Burnie bee, burnie bee	186
Buz, quoth the blue fly	172
Bye, baby bunting	124-5
Bye, O my baby	126
Can you make me a cambric shirt	191
Catskin, the story of	65
Cock a doodle doo	99
Come, all ye brisk young bachelors	35
Come, butter, come	129
Come dance a jig	101
Come let's to bed	184
Congeal'd water and Cain's brother	116
Cripple Dick upon a stick	103
Cross patch	203
Cry, baby, cry	127
Cuckoo, cherry tree	146
Curly locks, curly locks, wilt thou be mine?	175
Cushy cow bonny, let down thy milk	214
Dame, what make's your ducks to die?	172
Dance, little baby, dance up high	196
Dance, Thumpkin, dance	137
Danty baby diddy	125
Deedle, deedle, dumpling my son John	100
Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, doe	167
Dick and Tom, Will and John	105
Did you not hear of Betty Pringle's pig?	26
Ding, dong, bell	98
Ding, dong, darrow	109
Dingle, dingle, doosey	107
Dingty diddlety	98
Doodledy, doodled, doodled, dan	104
Draw a pail of water	142
Dr. Faustus was a good man	37

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Driddlety drum, driddlety drum	101
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread	141
Eight ships on the main	246
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess	117
Every lady in this land	217
Father, O father, I'm come to confess	148
Feedum, fiddledum fee	100
Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee	103
Five score of men, money, and pins	120
Formed long ago, yet made to-day	111
Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail	34
Gay go up and gay go down	135
Giles Collins he said to his old mother	91
Gilly Silly Jarter	108
Girls and boys, come out to play	143, 209
Give a thing, take a thing	245
Good horses, bad horses	147
Good morning, father Francis	148
Goosy goosy gander	113
Go to bed, Tom	200
Great A, little a	160
Green cheeses, yellow laces	149
Green leaves and pudding pies	199
Handy Spandy	97
Hark, hark, the dogs do bark	106
He tossed the ball so high	5
Here am I, little jumping Joan	158
Here comes a poor woman from baby-land	141
Here comes a lusty wooer	178
Here comes I	166
Here stands a fist	205
Here we come a piping	138
Herrings, herrings, white and red	168
Hey ! diddle diddle	103, 208
Hey ding a ding, what shall I sing ?	99
Hey dorolot, dorolot	102
Hey, my kitten, my kitten	127
Hic, hoc, the carrion crow	57
Hickory, dickory, dock	150
High diddle ding	15
High a ding a ding, and ho ding a ding	15
Highty cock O !	153
Highty, tighty, paradighty clothed in green	118
Hinx, minx ! the old witch winks	216
How many miles is it to Babylon	204
Hub a dub dub	97
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall	113, 208

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Hush a bye a ba lamb	126
Hush a bye, baby, on the tree top	124
Hush thee, my babby	126
Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry	125
I am a pretty wench	182
I can make diet bread	147
If all the seas were one sea	197
If all the world was apple-pie	157
If I'd as much money as I could spend	171
I had a little castle upon the sea-side	118
I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell	24
I had a little hobby-horse and it was well shod	196
I had a little husband	52
I had a little moppet	25
I had a little nut-tree	12
I had a little pony	170
I had a little sister, they call'd her peep, peep	119
I'll sing you a song	177, 184-5
I'll tell you a story	32
I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence	193
In fir tar is	218
In love be I fifth button high	173
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn	101
I saw an old woman	90
I see the moon, and the moon sees me	167
Is John Smith within ?	141
I went to the toad that lies under the wall	129
I will tell my own daddy when he comes home	190
I won't be my father's Jack	133
Jack and Jill	48
Jack Horner was a pretty lad	230
Jack Sprat could eat no fat	34
Jack Sprat had a cat	96
Jenny Wren fell sick	64
Jim and George were two great lords	19
John Ball shot them all	197
John, come sell thy fiddle	189
John Cook had a little grey mare	94
Jim Crow's sister	195
King Charles walked and talked	119
King Stephen was a worthy king	219
Lady-bird, lady-bird	204
Lady-cow, lady-cow, fly thy way home	ib.
Lazy dukes, that sit on their neuks	144
Leg over leg	110
Let us go to the wood, says this pig	140
Liar, liar, lick spit	164

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Little Blue Betty lived in a den	39
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep	93, 207
Little boy, pretty boy, where was you born?	202
Little boy blue, come blow up your horn	183
Little Brown Betty lived under a pan	225
Little General Monk	14
Little Jack Dandy-prat	61
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner	52
Little Jack Jingle	34
Little Jenny Wren fell sick upon a time	63
Little John Jiggy Jag	82
Little maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou ?	185
Little Mary Ester sat upon a tester	61
Little Miss Mopsey	37
Little Nancy Etticoat	114
Little Robin Red-breast	74
Little Tommy Tacket	199
Little Tom Tucker	89
Little Tom Trigger	83
London bridge is broken down	194
Long legs, crooked thighs	114
Lucy Locket lost her pocket	48
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John	130-1
Miss one two and three, could never agree	162
Mistress Mary, quite contrary	163, 211
Mrs. Twitchett with one eye	119
Multiplication is vexation	165
My daddy is dead, but I can't tell you how	11
My father he died, but I can't tell you how	10
My father he died, I cannot tell how	ib.
My lady's lap-dog	213
My lady Wind, my lady Wind	50
My little old man and I fell out	190
My nose is green	146
Nancy Dawson was so fine	173
N. for a word of deniance	162
Needles and pins, needles and pins	122
O bonny Hobby Elliott	179
O rare Harry Parry	182
O that I was where I would be	157
O the little rusty, dusty, rusty miller	176
Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see	194, 250
Oh, what's the rhyme to porringer ?	17
Old woman, old woman, shall we go a shearing	200
Old Dr. Foster went to Glo'ster	55
Old father Greybeard	112
Old King Cole	3

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Old mother Hubbard	76
Old mother Niddity Nod swore by the pudding-bag	91
Old mother Widdle Waddle jumpt out of bed	79
One-ery, two-ery	105
One misty moisty morning	191
One old Oxford ox opening oysters	153
One's none	162
One, two, buckle my shoe	161
One, two, three	105
One, two, three, four, five	160
Over the water, and over the lee	18
Parson Darby wore a black gown	170
Pat-a cake, pat-a cake, baker's man	161
Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold	115
Peg, peg, with a wooden leg	51
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper	129
Peter White will ne'er go right	159
Pillycock, Pillycock, sate on a hill	159, 210
Poor old Robinson Crusoe !	19
Purple, yellow, red and green	113
Pussycat, wussicat, with a white foot	109
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been ?	12
Pussy cat, pussy cat, will thou be mine ?	176
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, you sit in the sun	137
Rain, rain, go away	214
Riddle me, riddle me, riddle me ree !	122
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross	138-9, 209
Ride a cock-horse to Coventry Cross	139
Ride, baby, ride	190
Ring me, ring me, ring me rary	151
Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round	128
Robert Barnes, fellow fine	215
Robin a Bobbin, a Bilberry hen	229
Robin and Richard	23
Robin Hood, Robin Hood	4
Robin the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben	51
Rock a-bye, baby, the cradle is green	203
Round about, round about	104
Rowsty dowt, my fire's all out	22
Saturday night my wife did die	83
Says Aaron to Moses	48
Says Moses to Aaron	ib.
Says t'auld man tit oak tree	171
See a pin and pick it up	120
Seek a thing, give a thing	102
See saw, Jack a daw	153

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See saw, Jack in a hedge	152
See saw, Margery Daw	108, 108
See saw, sack-a-day	16
See saw, sacradown	152
See ! see ! what shall I see ?	118
Shake a leg, wag a leg, when will you gang ?	203
Shoe the colt	169
Sieve my lady's oatmeal	133
Simple Simon met a pieman	74
Sing a song of sixpence	62
Sing jigmijole, the pudding bowl	205
Sing, sing, what shall I sing ?	107
Snail, snail, come out of your hole	167
Solomon Grundy	38
Some up, some down	200
Some Christian people all give ear	28
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin	57
St. Dunstan, as the story goes	58
St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain	121
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief	54
Tell-tale, tit	165
The carrion crow he sat upon an oak	56
The cat sat asleep by the side of the fire	185
The cock's on the dunghill a blowing his horn	63, 74
The fals fox camme unto owre croft	41
The first day of Christmas	155
The fox and his wife, they had a great strife	39
The king of France, and four thousand men	20
The king of France went up the hill	ib.
The lion and the unicorn	37
The little priest of Felton	47
The little Robin red-breast	123
The man in the moon	32
The man in the moon drinks claret	33
The man in the wilderness asked me	157, 209
The quaker's wife got up to bake	177
The rose is red, the grass is green	13
The rose is red, the violet's blue	191
The sow came in with the saddle	186
The tailor of Bisiter	122
There once was a gentleman grand	65
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile	39
There was a frog liv'd in a well	87
There was a lady all skin and bone	81
There was a lady lov'd a swine	59
There was a little boy and a little girl	183

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There was a little guinea-pig	25
There was a little man	24, 47
There was a little nobby colt	59
There was a little man, and he woo'd a little maid	24, 224
There was a mad man and he had a mad wife	95
There was a man in our toone	45
There was a man of Newington	21
There was a man who had no eyes	213
There was a monkey climbed up a tree	13
There was a wee bit wifie	53
There was an old man	32
There was an old man, and he liv'd in a wood	96
There was an old man in a velvet coat	31
There was an old man who lived in a wood	43
There was an old man who liv'd in Middle-row	175
There was an old man of Tobago	215
There was an old woman	33, 90-1
There was an old woman, and she liv'd in a shoe	53
There was an old woman, and what do you think ?	158, 210
There was an old woman as I've heard tell	60
There was an old woman had nothing	158
There was an old woman had three sons	21
There was an old woman of Leeds	76
There was an old woman of Norwich	75
There was an old woman sat spinning	57
There was an old woman she went to church to pray	244
There was an old woman toss'd up in a blanket	89
There was an old woman who liv'd in a shoe	53
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all	216
There were three jovial Welshmen	145
There were three sisters in a hall	116
There were two birds sat on a stone	25
There were two blackbirds	134
Thirty white horses on a red hill	116
This is the house that Jack built	222
This is the key of the kingdom	140
This pig went to market	146
Thomas a Didymus, king of the Jews	188
Thomas a Didymus had a black beard	ib.
Three blind mice, see how they run	58
Three blind mice, three blind mice	243
Three children sliding on the ice	27, 206
Three wise men of Gotham	27
To make your candles last for aye	121
To market ride the gentlemen	139
Tom Brown's two little Indian boys	134
Tom he was a piper's son	79
To market, to market	110, 216

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Tom married a wife on Sunday	38
Tommy Tibule, Harry Wibule	106
Tommy Trot, a man of law	59
Tom, Tom, the piper's son	33, 206
Trip trap over the grass	154
Trip upon trenchers and dance upon dishes	183
Twelve hunstmen [lit.] with horns and hounds	142
Twelve pears hanging high	119
Two legs sat upon three legs	115
Up hill and down dale	181
Up street and down street	51
Upon a pleasant holiday	235
We are three brethren out of Spain	132
We'll go a shooting, says Robin to Bobbin	180
We'll hunt the wran, says Robin to Bobbin	249
We make no spare	23
We're all dry with drinking on't	173
We're all in the dumps	104
What care I how black I be ?	189
What is the rhyme for porringer ?	16
What shoemaker makes shoes without leather	114
What's the news of the day	215
When a twister twisting would twist him a twist	128
When good king Arthur ruled this land	4
When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself	22
When I was a little boy, I had but little wit	202
When I was a little boy, my mammy kept me in	164
When I was a little girl	168, 247
When I went up sandy hill	118
Whiskum whaskum	217
Who comes here ?	175
Who goes round the house at night ?	212
Who is going round my sheepfold	150
Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going ?	214
William and Mary, George and Anne	17
Yankee doodle came to town	63, 100
Zickety, dickety, dock	109