Nursery Crimes
Arranged by Traci Santanen

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack, why are your children sick?

Old mother Hubbard kept no food
in her cupboard and left all her children alone,
with no one to care that when she got there
they all had become skin and bone.

Hush-a-bye baby, Daddy is near,
Mama is a lady and her children very dear.

Jack Sprat could never do that,
his wife was hardly mean
and so betwixt the both of them
they kept their image clean.

Sing a song of sixpence,
another blackened eye,
four-and-twenty reasons why
you hear the children cry.

A, B, C, and D
pray for my playmates,
pray for me.

Hickory Dickory, six and seven,
all alone,
crack a bone,
ten and eleven,
spin, spun,
now look what you have done.

One, two,                             
with the buckle of a shoe,
three, four,
please don't hit me anymore.
Five, six,
we were given several licks.
Seven, eight,
hope its not too late.
Nine, ten,
must their blood be shed again?

Humpty Dumpty thrown upside a wall,
left a crack in his head,
though he claims from a fall.

Hush-a-bye baby,
on the tree top.
Held under a pillow
so the crying would stop.
When their bones break
and from the cradle they fall,
down will come baby
like a rag doll.

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