I re-wrote a version of this chant for last year's Pantomime - my version of "Jack and the Beanstalk". Dame trott thew the magic beans into the garden and went to bed. Faerie types circled them chanting:

Peas and Beans and Barley Chant

Where the peas and beans and barley grow.
Where the peas and beans and barley grow.
Ho di hi di ho de ho
Where the peas and beans and barley grow.

Where the magic beans in the moonlight sleep
We'll watch all night and a vigil keep
Where the cows all moo and the chickens cheep
We'll stay awake by counting sheep.

One of the characters then remaked that the last bit seemed "a quaint Cornish custom - how does that work then?"

Cheers, Joy