The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172504   Message #4175574
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Jun-23 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Simple Simon
Subject: Simple Simon
SIMPLE SIMON

Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.
Said the pieman unto Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.
Simple Simon went a-fishing,
For to catch a whale;
All the water he had got,
Was in his mother's pail.
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.[1]
He went for water in a sieve
But soon it all fell through
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu![2]

tune is Yankee Doodle Dandy???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Simon_(nursery_rhyme)