# Mother Goose: A Chimney - 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, Music - Topics: long, along, song, going, green, ladybird - Length: 272 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: Black within and red without; Four corners round about. ## Ladybird Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children all gone, All but one, and her name is Ann, And she crept under the pudding pan. ## The Man Who Had Naught There was a man and he had naught, And robbers came to rob him; He crept up to the chimney pot, And then they thought they had him. But he got down on t'other side, And then they could not find him; He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never looked behind him. ## The Tailors And The Snail Four and Twenty tailors Went to kill a snail; The best man among them Durst not touch her tail; She put out her horns Like a little Kyloe cow. Run, tailors, run, or She'll kill you all e'en now. ## Around The Green Gravel Around the green gravel the grass grows green, And all the pretty maids are plain to be seen; Wash them with milk, and clothe them with silk, And write their names with a pen and ink. ## Intery, Mintery Intery, mintery, cutery corn, Apple seed and apple thorn; Wire, brier, limber-lock, Five geese in a flock, Sit and sing by a spring, O-u-t, and in again. ## Caesar'S Song Bow-wow-wow! Whose dog art thou? Little Tom Tinker's dog, Bow-wow-wow! ## As I Was Going Along AS I WAS GOING ALONG As I was going along, along, A-singing a comical song, song, song, The lane that I went was so long, long, long, And the song that I sang was so long, long, long, And so I went singing along. ## Picture credits - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain ()