Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
Your house is on fire and your children are gone,
All except one,
And her name is Ann,
And she hid under the frying pan

LADYBIRD, ladybird, fly away home;
Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone,
All but one that lies under a stone;
Fly thee home, ladybird, ere it be gone.

This is the way ladies ride,
Nimble, nimble ,nimble ,nimble.
This is the way the gentlemen ride,
A gallop, a trot, a gallop, a trot.
This is the way the farmers ride,
Jiggety-jog, jiggety-jog.

Knock at the door,
Pull the bell,
Lift the latch,
Walk in all’s well.

Father and Mother and Uncle Dan
All rode to market upon a white ram.
Off fell father, and off fell mother,
And away rode uncle Dan.

I often sit and wish that I,
Could be a kite up in the sky.
And ride upon the breeze and go,
Whatever way I chanced to blow.
Then I could look beyond the town,
And see the river winding down.
And follow all the ships that sail,
Like me, before the merry gale.
Until at last with them I came,
To some place [...]

King Pippin built a fine new hall,
Pastry and piecrust were the wall.
Windows made of black pudding and white,
Slates were pancakes, you never saw the like.

King Boggen, he built a fine new hall;
Pastry and piecrust, that was the wall;
The windows were made of black pudding and white,
Roofed with pancakes – you never saw the like.

Over the borders, a sin without pardon,
Breaking the branches and crawling below,
Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,
Down by the banks of the river we go.
Here is a mill with the humming of thunder,
Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,
Here is the sluice with the race running under
Marvellous places, though [...]

“I went up one pair of stairs.”
“Just like me.”
“I went up two pairs of stairs.”
“Just like me.”
“I went into a room.”
“Just like me.”
“I looked out of a window.”
“Just like me.”
“And there I saw a monkey.”
“Just like me.”