Children's songs -- United States; Games with music
(21.) 1, 2, 3, 4,
Lily at the kitchen-door,
Eating grapes off the plate,
5, 6, 7, 8.
--_Philadelphia_ (1880).
(22.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
Mary sat at the garden-gate,
Eating plums off a plate,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
(23.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
All good children go to heaven.
--_Massachusetts to Pennsylvania._
(24.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
All bad children have to wait.
--_Massachusetts._
(25.) Monkey, monkey, bottle of beer,
How many monkeys are there here?
1, 2, 3,
You are he (she).
--_Massachusetts to Georgia._
(26.) Linnet, linnet,
Come this minute,
Here's a house with something in it;
This was built for me, I know.
--_Philadelphia._
(27.) School's up, school's down,
School's all around the town.
(28.) Three potatoes in a pot,
Take one out and leave it hot.
--_Philadelphia._
(29.) Mittie Mattie had a hen,
She laid eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten.
--_Georgia._
(30.) William a Trimbletoe,
He's a good fisherman,
Catch his hands, put them in pens,
Some fly East, some fly West,
Some fly over the cuckoo's nest--
O-u-t spells out and be gone.
--_Georgia._
(31.) Red, white, and blue,
All out but you.
--_Philadelphia._
(32.) Engine No. 9,
Out goes she.
--_Philadelphia._
(33.) As I went up the apple-tree,
All the apples fell on me;
Bake a pudding, bake a pie,
Did you ever tell a lie?
Yes, you did, you know you did,
You broke your mother's teapot-lid--
L-i-d, that spells lid.
--_Cincinnati._
(34.) Little man, driving cattle,
Don't you hear his money rattle?
One, two, three,
Out goes he (she).
--_Massachusetts._
(35.) Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is sour and sad,
Thursday's child is merry and glad,
Friday's child is full of sin,
Saturday's child is pure within;
The child that is born on the Sabbath day,
To heaven its steps shall tend alway.[126]
--_Georgia._
FOOTNOTES:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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