Chapter I: Front Matter

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Little
Songs of Long Ago

“More old Nursery Rhymes”

The original tunes harmonized
by
Alfred Moffat

Illustrated by
H. Willebeek Le Mair

Augener Ltd.
London

Philadelphia:
David McKay, Publisher,
604-8 So. Washington Square.

Copyright, 1912, by Augener Ltd.
Printed in England.

Contents

Page
Dame get up and bake your pies 5
Dance a baby diddy 7
Young lambs to sell 9
Over the hills 11
Little Polly Flinders 13
The north wind 15
Old King Cole 17
Dance to your daddy 19
I saw three ships 21
Curly locks 23
London Bridge 25
Little jumping Joan 27
O dear, what can the matter be 29
There came to my window 31
The babes in the wood 33
Simple Simon 35
Where are you going to? 37
Lazy sheep 39
Three mice went to a hole 41
Four and twenty tailors 43
See Saw, Margery Daw 45
The crooked man 47
Lavender blue 49
Little Tom Tucker 51
A frog he would a-wooing go 53
The spider and the fly 55
I had a little nut tree 57
Goosey Gander 59
A little cock sparrow 61
Sleep baby, sleep 63

Uniform with this volume
Our Old Nursery Rhymes
30 Illustrations by the same Artist

DAME GET UP AND BAKE YOUR PIES.

[Music:

1. Dame, get up and bake your pies,
Bake your pies, bake your pies;
Dame, get up and bake your pies
On Christmas Day in the morning]

2. Dame, what makes your maidens lie?
Maidens lie, maidens lie;
Dame, what makes your maidens lie
On Christmas Day in the morning?

3. Dame, what makes your ducks to die? etc

4. “Their wings are cut, they cannot fly; etc.

DANCE A BABY DIDDY.

[Music:

Dance a Baby Diddy,
What can mammy do wid ’e?
Sit in her lap,
Give it some pap,
And dance a Baby Diddy!]

YOUNG LAMBS TO SELL.

[Music:

Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell,
Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell;
If I’d as much money as I could tell
I wouldn’t come here with young lambs to sell.
Two for a penny, eight for a groat,
As fine young lambs as ever were bought.]

OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.

[Music:

1. Tom he was a piper’s son,
He learnt to play when he was young;
But all the tune that he could play,
Was “Over the hills and far away.”
Over the hills and a great way off
The wind shall blow my top-knot off!]

2. Tom with his pipe made such a noise
That he pleased both the girls and boys.
And so they stopped to hear him play
“Over the hills and far away.” etc

LITTLE POLLY FLINDERS.

[Music:

Little Polly Flinders
Sat among the cinders
Warming her pretty little toes.
Her mother came and caught her
And smacked her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothes.]

THE NORTH WIND DOES BLOW.

[Music:

The North Wind does blow
And we shall have snow;
And what will the Robin do then, poor thing?
He’ll sit in the barn
To keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing!]

OLD KING COLE.

[Music:

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he:
And he called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Ev’ry fiddler had a fiddle fine,
A very fine fiddle had he;
Then tweedle-dee went the fiddlers three,
And so merry we will be.]

DANCE TO YOUR DADDY.

[Music:

Dance to your daddy
My little laddie!
Dance to your daddy
My little lamb!

You shall have a fishy
On a little dishy,
You shall have a fishy
When the boat comes in!

Dance to your daddy
My little babby!
Dance to your daddy
My little lamb!]