Volume 1 — BABY’S TOES
Reading edition
Dear little bare feet, Dimpled and white, In your long nightgown Wrapped for the night.
Come, let me count all Your queer little toes, Pink as the heart Of a shell or a rose.
One is a lady That sits in the sun; Two is a baby, And three is a nun.
Four is a lily With innocent breast; And five is a birdie Asleep on her nest.
“BABY’S TOES”
BY EDITH A. BENTLEY
Five little piggie wiggies Standing in a row, We always have to toddle Where the baby wants to go; Up-stairs and down-stairs, Indoors and out, We’re always close together And we never fall out.
Chorus: Father-Pig and Mother-Pig, And Big-Brother Pig, And Sister-Pig, and darling little Baby Piggie-Wig!
Oh, sometimes we are all tied up In a bag so tight. This is when the baby goes “To sleepy-bye” at night. Then there’s nothing else to do But cuddle down and rest— Just as little birdies cuddle In their little nest.
Chorus: Father-Pig and Mother-Pig And Big-Brother Pig, And Sister-Pig, and darling little Baby Piggie-Wig!