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Thread #172504   Message #4175577
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Jun-23 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Simple Simon
Subject: RE: Origins: Simple Simon
Simple Simon 3
Here's a longer version from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright:

Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Let me taste your ware."

Says the pieman to Simple 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 could find
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.

He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt,
To put upon its tail.

He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it ran all through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.