LITTLE BO-PEEP
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Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Let them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; And when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they were all fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind them. It happened one day as Bo-Peep did stray Into a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye, And went over hill and dale, oh; And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack to each sheep its tail, oh!
