Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can’t tell where to find them;
Leave them alone and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-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 their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
Unto a meadow hard by:
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
Then she heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,
And ran over hill and dale-o,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack to each sheep its tail-o.
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