# Mother Goose: Just Like Me

- Source: The Real Mother Goose (mother-goose.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Blanche Fisher Wright, illustrator, 1916, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Ages 4 to 6
- Subjects: Poems, Animals
- Topics: riddle, ding, carrion, crow, heigh-ho, went
- Length: 353 words, about 3 min
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"I went up one pair of stairs."  
"Just like me."  
"I went up two pairs of stairs."  
"Just like me."  
"I went into a room."  
"Just like me."  
"I looked out of a window."  
"Just like me."  
"And there I saw a monkey."  
"Just like me."

## Heigh-Ho, The Carrion Crow

A carrion crow sat on an oak,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do,  
Watching a tailor shape his cloak;  
Sing heigh-ho, the carrion crow,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!  
Wife, bring me my old bent bow,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do,  
That I may shoot yon carrion crow;  
Sing heigh-ho, the carrion crow,  
Fol de riddle, loi de riddle, hi ding do!  
The tailor he shot, and missed his mark,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!  
And shot his own sow quite through the heart;  
Sing heigh-ho, the carrion crow,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!  
Wife! bring brandy in a spoon,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!  
For our old sow is in a swoon;  
Sing heigh-ho, the carrion crow,  
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!

## Play Days

How many days has my baby to play?  
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,  
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,  
Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

## Christmas

Christmas comes but once a year,  
And when it comes it brings good cheer.

## Elizabeth

Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess,  
They all went together to seek a bird's nest;  
They found a bird's nest with five eggs in,  
They all took one, and left four in.

## Abc

Great A, little a,  
Bouncing B!  
The cat's in the cupboard,  
And can't see me.

## A Needle And Thread

Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,  
And a long tail which she let fly;  
And every time she went through a gap,  
A bit of her tail she left in a trap.

## Banbury Cross

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,  
To see an old lady upon a white horse.  
Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,  
She shall have music wherever she goes.

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## Picture credits

- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)
- Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10607/pg10607-images.html>)