Simple Simon

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."

He went to catch a dickey bird, and thought he would not fail,
Because he'd got a little salt, to put upon his tail,

He went to take a bird's nest, 'twas built upon a bough;
A branch gave way and Simon fell into a dirty slough.

He went to shoot a wild duck but the wild duck flew away;
Says Simon, "I can't hit him, because he will not stay."

He went for to eat honey, out of the mustard pot;
It bit his toungue until he cried, that was all the good he got.

Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale;
All the water he got was in his Mother's pail.