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Round and Round the Garden

April 3, 2023 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

Round and Round the Garden

Round and round the garden
Goes the teddy bear
One step, two steps
Tickle under there!

Directions: pretend your fingers are the teddy bear and use them to “walk” around either the child’s tummy or back, then tickle under their chin or their armpit at the end. This is a great rhyme for building anticipation as little ones know what is coming and can get very excited for the end tickle.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: actions, animals, infants, spring, summer

Higglety Pigglety Pop

April 3, 2023 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

Higglety Pigglety Pop

Higglety pigglety pop
The dog has eaten the mop
The pig’s in a hurry
The cat’s in a flurry
Higglety pigglety pop!

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: animals

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

May 27, 2021 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them over your shoulder
like a continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

Find more nursery rhymes on the Ultimate List of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: actions, body, infants, traditional song

Once I Caught a Fish Alive

May 15, 2021 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

One, two, three, four, five
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
This little finger on the right.

Find more Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes here.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: animals, counting, summer, water

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

April 29, 2021 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you!

An early version of the poem read:
The rose is red
The violet’s blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: colors, flowers, infants, Valentine's Day

If Wishes Were Horses

April 2, 2020 by ajpassey 1 Comment

If Wishes Were Horses

If wishes were horses,
Beggars would ride.
If turnips were watches,
I’d wear one by my side.
And if “ifs” and “ands”
Were pots and pans,
There’d be no work for tinkers!

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: around town, Imagine Your Story

A Cat Came Fiddling

April 2, 2020 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

A Cat Came Fiddling

A cat came fiddling out of the barn,
With a pair of bagpipes under her arm.
She could sing nothing but “Fiddle-de-dee,
The mouse has married the bumble-bee.”
Pipe, cat!
Dance, mouse!
We’ll have a wedding at our good house.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: animals, Imagine Your Story, Tails and Tales, traditional

Hush-a-bye Baby

April 2, 2020 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

Hush-a-bye Baby

Hush-a-bye, Baby,
In the tree top,
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall,
Down tumbles cradle
And Baby and all.

This song is also known as Rock-a-Bye and can work as a lullaby or as an action song. See Rock-a-Bye for more details on the actions.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: actions, infants, traditional song, weather

The Man in the Wilderness

April 2, 2020 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

The Man in the Wilderness

The man in the wilderness asked me
How many strawberries grew in the sea.
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings as grew in the wood.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: people, traditional

The Hobby Horse

April 2, 2020 by ajpassey Leave a Comment

The Hobby Horse

I had a little hobby horse,
And it was dapple gray.
Its head was made of pea-straw,
Its tail was made of hay.
I sold it to an old woman
For a copper groat;
And I’ll not sing my song again
Without another coat.

Filed Under: Lyrics, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: animals, infants, Tails and Tales, traditional

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