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Nursery Rhymes

And

Country Songs

Both Tunes and Words from Tradition

by

Miss M H Mason

New (Second) Edition published in 1908 (First published in 1878)

by Metzler and Co, London

(Click on Image label to view)

Front Cover

 

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Frontispiece

 

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Preface to New Edition

 

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Preface

 

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Index (First Lines)

 

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Pat-a-cake

3

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Robertin Thrush

4

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Dickery, Dickery, Dock

4

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Goosey, Goosey, Gander

5

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Little Market Woman, The

6

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King Arthur’s Servants

7

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Frog’s Wooing, The (First Tune)

8

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Frog’s Wooing, The (Second Tune)

9

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Old King Cole

10

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See-Saw

11

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Looby Light

12

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Nancy Dawson

13

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There was a little Dog, Sitting by the Fireside

14

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Hush-a-bye, Baby, Pussy’s a Lady

15

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Wing Wang Waddle, O!

16

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Goose and the Gander, The

16

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Little Bo-Peep

17

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I had a little Moppet

18

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There was an Old Woman tossed up in an Basket

19

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Whose little Pigs are these?

20

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Have you seen my Love?

21

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Rosy Apple

21

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Babes in the Wood, The

22

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Paradox, A (First Version)

23

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Paradox, A (Second Version)

24

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There was a Pig went out to dig

25

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Tree in the Valley, The

26

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Madam, I present you with six Rows of Pins

27

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I love a Sixpence

28

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Jacket and the Petticoat, The

29

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Baker’s Wife, The

30

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There was a Lady in the West

31

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Johnny Pringle

32

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There was an A’d Man cam’ over the Lea

33

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Green grow the leaves upon the Hawthorn Tree

34

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As I was a-going Tweedside

36

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Dance to thy Minnie

37

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Dance to Your Daddie

38

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When I had a Saxpence under my Thumb

38

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There was a Haggis inDunbar

39

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The Monyplies

40

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Robin’s Last Will, The

41

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When I was a Maiden

42

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Silly Old Man

43

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Spencer the Rover

44

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Spider, The

45

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Giles Colin

46

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Little Sir William

46

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Cutty Wren, The

47

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Carrier Pigeon, The

48

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Old Horse, The

49

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Sweet Country Life, A

51

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‘Tis of a Noble Lord

52

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Privateer, The

53

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Rosebuds in June, The

55

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‘Tis of a Young Damsel

56

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In Thorney Woods

57

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In Thorney Woods (continued)

58

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Back Cover

 

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Jan 2006

 


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