THE

MERRIE HEART:

A Collection of Favourite Nursery Rhymes.

BY

M. E. G.

LONDON:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN,

BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LONDON, E.C.

25210. [.50.

INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES.

A carrion crow sat on an oak - - - -
A fair little girl sat under a tree . . . .
A hoggie dead ! a hoggie dead ! a hoggie dead! ..
A little cock sparrow [sat on a green tree] - -
A little man and I fell out [how shall we bring, &c.
A little man and I fell out (I'll tell you, &c.]
A rainbow in the morning - -
A titty mouse sat in a witty to spin .
A was an apple pie . .
A' the nicht ower and ower -
All the months of the year.
Amo, amas, I love a lass ..
Annan, Tweed and Clyde
An old woman was sweeping her house
April fool, April fool • -
April showers - -
As I came in by Glenap - -
As I was going to St. Ives.
As I was going up Pippin Hill
As the day lengthens - -
As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks -

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Ba, ba, black sheep - - .
Be a good child :
Bell-ell-ell · ·
Blow the fire, blacksmith .
Blow, wind, blow; and go, mill,
Blue (is love true] ..
Blue is beauty, red's a token
Boys and girls, come out to play..

I doubt, I doubt

If all the world was apple pie . .

If Candlemas Day be dry and fair .

If I'd as much money as I could spend .

If New Year's Eve night wind blow south .

If the cock crows on going to bed

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died .

I had a little hobby-horse

Y horse

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I had a little husband · · ·

I had a little moppet · ·

I had a little pony ·

I had a little sister, they called her Peep-peep

I lay me down upon my side ..

I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence .

I saw a peacock with a fiery tail . .

I saw three ships come sailing by . .

I won't be my father's Jack • • .

I would if I could . . . .

I'll sing you a song (Nine verses long] ..

I'll sing you a song [The days are long]

I'll tell you a story .

In dock, out nettle -
In-fir-tar-is, in-oak-none-is . . .
Is John Smith within ? . .
It was a frog in a well • ..

Tack and Gill . . . . .

Jack Sprat would eat no fat -

John, come sell thy fiddle ..

John Cook had a little grey mare, he, haw, hum

John Smith, fellow fine .

Johnnie Armstrong had a calf ..