# Mother Goose: The Three Sons - 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: shoe, belleisle, called, cock-a-doodle-do, cole, fiddlers - Length: 326 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: There was an old woman had three sons, Jerry and James and John, Jerry was hanged, James was drowned, John was lost and never was found; And there was an end of her three sons, Jerry and James and John! ## The Blacksmith "Robert Barnes, my fellow fine, Can you shoe this horse of mine?" "Yes, good sir, that I can, As well as any other man; There's a nail, and there's a prod, Now, good sir, your horse is shod." ## Two Gray Kits The two gray kits, And the gray kits' mother, All went over The bridge together. The bridge broke down, They all fell in; "May the rats go with you," Says Tom Bolin. ## One, Two, Buckle My Shoe One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Knock at the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good, fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Dig and delve; Thirteen, fourteen, Maids a-courting; Fifteen, sixteen, Maids in the kitchen; Seventeen, eighteen, Maids a-waiting; Nineteen, twenty, My plate's empty. ## Cock-A-Doodle-Do! Cock-a-doodle-do! My dame has lost her shoe, My master's lost his fiddle-stick And knows not what to do. Cock-a-doodle-do! What is my dame to do? Till master finds his fiddle-stick, She'll dance without her shoe. ## Pairs Or Pears Twelve pairs hanging high, Twelve knights riding by, Each knight took a pear, And yet left a dozen there. ## Belleisle At the siege of Belleisle I was there all the while, All the while, all the while, At the siege of Belleisle. ## Old King Cole Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three! And every fiddler, he had a fine fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he. "Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee," went the fiddlers. Oh, there's none so rare As can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three. ## Picture credits - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain ()