From Ruth Crawford Seeger, American Folk Songs for Children (Doubleday & Co., 1948), as sung by Emma Dusenbury, Arkansas, collected by Sidney Robertson for the Library of Congress. Recorded by Mike and Peggy Seeger on American Folk Songs for Children, Rounder CD 11543, 1987.

BOUGHT ME A CAT

1. Bought me a cat, the cat pleased me
Fed my cat under yonders tree,
Cat went fiddle-i-fee, fiddle-i-fee.

Cumulatively, add:

2. hen, chipsy chopsy
3. duck, slishy sloshy
4. goose, qua
5. dog, boo
6. sheep, baa
7. cow, moo
8. horse, neigh
9. baby, mammy mammy
10. woman, honey honey

~ Becky in Tucson