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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]