Ten Traditional Rhymes
Word Sheet
Produced for Wolverhampton’s
Rhymes for Reading Challenge 2013
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1. HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
(chorus)
Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning
This is the way we wash our face, wash our face, wash our face
This is the way we wash our face on a cold and frosty morning
(chorus)
This is the way we brush our hair, brush our hair, brush our hair
This is the way we brush our hair on a cold and frosty morning
(chorus)
This is the way we clean our teeth, clean our teeth, clean our teeth
This is the way we clean our teeth on a cold and frosty morning
(chorus)
This is the way we wave bye bye, wave bye bye, wave bye bye
This is the way we wave bye bye on a cold and frosty morning
(chorus)
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2. HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Could not put Humpty together again
Humpty Dumpty fell on his head
They picked him up gently and put him to bed
But all the King's horses and all the King's men
Could not put Humpty together again
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Could not put Humpty together again
3. LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady
Build it up with iron and steel, iron and steel, iron and steel
Built it up with iron and steel, my fair lady
Iron and steel will bend and bow, bend and bow, bend and bow
Iron and steel will bend and bow, my fair lady
Build it up with wood and clay, wood, and clay, wood and clay
Build it up with wood and clay, my fair lady
Wood and clay will wash away, wash away, wash away
Wood and clay will wash away, my fair lady
In the river you must go, you must go, you must go
In the river you must go, my fair lady
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4. LONDON'S BURNING
London's burning, London's burning
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines
Fire fire, fire fire
Pour on water, pour on water
(repeat)
5. PUSSYCAT PUSSYCAT
Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?
I’ve been up to London to visit at the Queen
Pussycat, pussycat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair
6. HOT CROSS BUNS
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns
One a penny, two a penny
Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters
Give them to your sons
One a penny, two a penny
Hot cross buns
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7. POP GOES THE WEASEL
Half a pound of tuppeny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
8. BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir
Three bags full
One for the master
And one for the dame
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane
9. I HAD A LITTLE NUT TREE
I had a little nut tree
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
And a golden pear
The King of Spain’s daughter
Came to visit me
And all for the sake
Of my little nut tree
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10. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
When the blazing sun is gone
When he nothing shines upon
Then you show your little light
Twinkle twinkle all the night
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
In the dark blue sky you keep
And often through my curtains peep
And you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
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