whats your favorite "mother goose ryhme?

[pugsly 0]

now what is the meaning of this?

Baa, baa, black sheep,

Have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir,

Three bags full;

One for my master,

One for my dame,

And one for the little boy

That lives in our lane

[pugsly 0]

and this?Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,

And can't tell where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they'll come home,

And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,

And dreamt she heard them bleating;

But when she awoke, she found it a joke,

For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,

For they'd left all their tails behind them.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.

Bake me a cake as fast as you can.

Pat it and roll it and mark it with "B"

And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

I often did this one with Ahmeds neice in morocco she got to where she really knew the gesters

[pugsly 0]

Ding, dong, bell,

#####'s in the well!

Who put her in?

Little Tommy Green.

Who pulled her out?

Big Johnny Stout.

What a naughty boy was that,

To drown poor #####-cat,

Who never did him any harm,

But killed the mice in his father's barn!

[raphael7546 0]

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on her Tuffet

Eating her Curds & Whey

When along came a Spider

Who crept up beside her and said:

WHAT YA GOT IN THE BOWL BIOTCH????

Okay, it's not the original version but I like it.

[pugsly 0]

Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall;

Threescore men and threescore more

Cannot place Humpty-Dumpty as he was before

In my work i work with alzhiemers patients and i was resiting this rhyme to my patient. I said the first line.

He repeated after me.

Humpty-Dumpty SH_t on the wall. I never laughed so hard in my life.

[Amby 490]

i can't post my favorite ones, as they are modified by adc

dammit charles! you said it before I had a chance!!!!

[pugsly 0]

Hey! diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I remember my Dad reading this one from a Mother Goose book we had. I loved the illustrations.

There was a crooked man,

And he walked a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence

Upon a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat,

Which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all lived together

In a crooked little house.

Edit: ....and I found this historical reference to the original

The origin of the Nursery rhyme "There was a crooked man" is in British history

The content of "There was a crooked man" poem have a basis in history. The origin of this poem originates from the English Stuart history of King Charles 1. The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie. The General signed a Covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The 'crooked stile' referred to in "There was a crooked man" being the border between England and Scotland. 'They all lived together in a little crooked house' refers to the fact that the English and Scots had at last come to an agreement. The words reflect the times when there was great animosity between the English and the Scots. The word crooked is pronounced as 'crookED' the emphasis being placed upon the 'ED' in the word. This was common in olde England and many references can be found in this type of pronunciation in the

works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Edited April 19, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[GabiandVi 34]

This is my daughter exactly. Fortunately, (knock wood), she is good much more often than she is bad.

There was a little girl

Who had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead;

And when she was good,

She was very, very good

But when she was bad she was horrid.

This poem is the work of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He composed it one day when his daughter Edith refused to submit her hair to a curling iron. For many years afterward, Longfelllow, the author of such works as Evangeline and "Paul Revere's Ride," denied having written the verse.

When pressed by his friends, he owned up, albeit somewhat crossly; "When I recall my juvenile poems and prose sketches, I wish that they were forgotten entirely. They however cling to one's skirt with a terrible grasp."

- The Great American Baby Almanac

[Ban Hammer 12,829]

oh you bad bad boy. Mother goose would hit you over head with wet noodle.

that one from platypius was from adc

[amiquechu 0]

i can't post my favorite ones, as they are modified by adc

dammit charles! you said it before I had a chance!!!!

Some of the Diceman's remixes, Charles?

[Ban Hammer 12,829]

i can't post my favorite ones, as they are modified by adc

dammit charles! you said it before I had a chance!!!!

Some of the Diceman's remixes, Charles?

those are great

[PlatyPius 5]

Little boy blew....

He needed the money.

[Jenn! 918]

My mom used to record cassette tapes of me when I was little and there's this one that has me at about two years old singing Little Jack Horner. It's really cute, so I guess that's my favorite Mother Goose rhyme.

Little Jack Horner

Sat in a corner,

Eating his Christmas pie.

He put in his thumb,

And he pulled out a plum,

And said, "What a good boy am I!"

Edited April 19, 2008 by Jenn!