This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Good boy am I! New Year's Day. 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. 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? Three pretty girls ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Good boy am I! New Year's Day. 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. 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? 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. And one could whistle and one could sing, And one could play on the violin, Such joy there was at my wedding, On New Year's Day in the morning. Simple Simon. Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny;" Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Indeed, I have not any." Simple Simon went a-fishing For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle. Mother, Mother. "Buy me a milking-pail, Mother, mother." "Betsy's gone a-milking, Beautiful daughter." "Sell my father's feather-bed, Mother, mother." "Where will your father lie, Beautiful daughter?" ' Put him in the boys' bed, Mother, mother." "Where will the boys lie, Beautiful daughter?" "Put them in the pig's stye, Mother, mother." "Where will the pigs lie, Beautiful daughter?" "Put them in the salting tub, Mother, mother. Put them in the salting tub, Mother, mother." Song of the Fairies. Oh, who is so merry, so merry, heigh ho! As the light-hearted fairy, heigh ho, heigh ho! He dances and sings To the sound of his win...
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