The Baby's Opera

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GIRLS AND BOYS

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1. Girls and boys come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep;
Come to your playfellows in the street;

2. Come with a whoop, and come with a call.
Come with a good will or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A penny loaf will serve you all.

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Here we go round the mulberry bush,
the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush;
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
All on a frosty morning.

This is the way we clap our hands,
This is the way we clap our hands,
This is the way we clap our hands,
All on a frosty morning.

 

ORANGES & LEMONS

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Oranges and lemons, says the bells of St. Clemen’s;
You owe me five farthings, says the bells of St. Martin’s;
When will you pay me, says the bells of Old Bailey;
When I grow rich, says the bells of Shoreditch;
When will that be? says the bells of Stepney;
I do not know, says the great bell of Bow.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

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Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree
As full of apples as may be,
The little boys of London town
They run with hooks to pull them down;
And then they run from hedge to hedge
Until they come to London Bridge.

MY LADY’S GARDEN

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How does my lady’s garden grow?
How does my lady’s garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row!

 

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1. What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails and puppy-dog’s tails,
And that are little boys made of.

2. What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice and all that’s nice,
And that are little girls made of.

3. What are young men made of?
What are young men made of?
Sighs and leers, and crocodile tears,
And that are young men made of.

4. What are young women made of?
What are young women made of?
Ribbons and laces, and sweet pretty faces,
And that are young women made of.

LAVENDER’S BLUE

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1. Lavender’s blue, diddle, diddle!
Lavender’s green;
When I am king, diddle, diddle!
You shall be queen.

2. Call up your men, diddle, diddle!
Set them to work;
Some to the plough, diddle, diddle!
Some to the cart.

3. Some to make hay, diddle, diddle!
Some to cut corn;
While you and I, diddle, diddle!
Keep ourselves warm.

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1. I saw three ships come sailing by,
Sailing by, sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On New-year’s Day in the morning.

2. And what do you think was in them then,
In them then, in them then,
And what do you think was in them then,
On New-year’s Day in the morning?

3. Three pretty girls were in them then,
In them then, in them then,
Three pretty girls were in them then,
On New-year’s Day in the morning.

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