Editorial note — GOOSE’S MELODIES.

About the bush, Willie, about the bee-hive

Arthur O’Bower has broken his band

As I was going to Derby upon a market day

As I was going to St. Ives

As I was going to sell my eggs

Away, pretty robin, fly home to your nest

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?

Bobby Shaftoe’s gone to sea

Bonny lass! bonny lass!

Bow, wow, wow, whose dog are thou?

Boys and girls, come out to play

Bye, Baby bunting

Charley Wag

Charley loves good cake and ale

Cock a doodle doo

Cock, cock, cock, cock / I’ve laid an egg

Cold and raw the north winds blow

A cow and a calf

Cross Patch, draw the latch

The Cuckoo is a bonny bird

Cushy Cow bonny, let down your milk

Daffy-down-dilly is new come to town

Dear Sensibility, O la!

Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John

Ding dong bell, the cat’s in the well

Dingty diddledy, my mammy’s maid

Fa, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum!

The girl in the lane

Great A, little a, bouncing B

Handy-spandy, Jacky dandy

Hark! hark! the dogs do bark

Harry cum Parry, when will you marry?

Heigh ding a ding, what shall I sing?

Here’s A, B, C, D

Hey ding a ding, ding, I heard a bird sing

Hey, my kitten, my kitten

Hey rub-a-dub, ho rub-a-dub, three maids in a tub

Hiccory, diccory, dock

Hogs in the garden, catch ’em, Towser

Hop away, skip away, my baby wants to play

How many days has my baby to play?

How many miles to Babylon?

Hush-a-bye, baby, lie still with thy daddy

Hush-a-bye, baby, upon the tree top

I had a little Doll

I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb

I like little pussy, her coat is so warm

I’ll tell you a story / About Mary Morey

In April’s sweet month

Is master Smith within? Yes, that he is

I will sing you a song

I won’t be my father’s Jack

I would, if I could; if I couldn’t, how could I?

Jack and Jill went up the hill

Jack Sprat could eat no fat

Jacky, come give me your fiddle

Jemmy Jed went into a shed

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way

Johnny shall have a new bonnet

John O’Gudgeon he was a wild man

Lady-bird, Lady-bird

Lavender blue, and Rosemary green

Lazy Tom with jacket blue

The lion and the Unicorn

The little black dog ran round the house

Little boy blue, come blow your horn

Little Jack Nory

Little Johnny Pringle had a little Pig

Little king Boggen he built a fine hall

Little lad, little lad

The little Robin grieves

Little Robin Redbreast

Little Tommy Tucker

London bridge is broken down

The man in the moon came down too soon

The man in the wilderness

Mary had a pretty bird

Milk-man, milk-man, where have you been?

Miss Jane had a bag, and a mouse was in it

Mistress Mary, quite contrary

My little Pink

The north wind doth blow

Nose, Nose, jolly red Nose

Oh I am so happy

Oh that I were where I would be!

Oh, what a sweet little white Mouse!

Old mistress McShuttle

Once in my life I married a wife

One misty, moisty morning

One, Two, buckle my shoe

One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Pat a cake, pat a cake

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater

Pibroch of Donnel Dhu

Pretty John Watts

Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?

Pussy sits behind the log

Richard and Robin were two pretty men

Ride a cock horse to Banbury-cross

Ride a cock horse to Charing-Cross

Ride a cock horse to Shrewsbury-cross

Ride away, ride away

Robert Barns, fellow fine

Rock-a-bye, baby, your cradle is green

The rose is red, the violet blue

Round about, round about

Saturday night shall be my whole care

See saw, Jack-a-daw

See-saw, Margery Daw

See saw, sacradown, sacradown

Shake a leg, wag a leg, when will you gang?

Shoe the colt

Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare

Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye

Sing, Sing! What shall I sing?

Smiling girls, rosy boys

Snail, Snail

The sow came in with the saddle

Sweep, sweep

Taffy was a Welchman, Taffy was a thief

Tell tale tit, your tongue shall be slit

There was a little boy went into a barn

There was a little man

There was a mad man

There was a man and he had naught

There was a man in our town

There was an old man / And he had a calf

There was an old man in a velvet coat

There was an old woman, and what do you think?

There was an old woman lived under the hill

There was an old woman, she liv’d in a shoe

There was an old woman / Sold puddings and pies

There was an old woman tost up in a blanket

There was a Piper had a Cow

There were two birds sat upon a stone

There were two blind men went to see

This is the way the ladies ride

Three wise men of Gotham

To bed, to bed, says Sleepy-Head

To market, to market, to buy a penny bun

Tom Brown’s two little Indian boys

Tom, Tom, of Islington

Tom, Tom, the piper’s son

Trip upon trenchers

’Twas once upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young

The two grey Kits

Two sticks in an apple

Up in the green orchard there is a green tree

Wash me and comb me

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town

We’ll go to the wood, says Richard to Robin

What care I how black I be?

When good King Arthur ruled his land

What’s the news of the day

When I was a little boy, I lived by myself

When I was a little boy, I washed my mammy’s dishes

When I was a little boy, my mother kept me in

When I was a little he

Who comes here? A Grenadier

You owe me five shillings