Oh I remember that one...I got sent to the principal's office and spanked for telling it to the third graders in my class...when I was in the 3rd grade...
here's how it went:
"Mary had a little lamb"...... (I told her not to sleep in the barn). ; )
of course I was only eight, and didn't know why the joke was so egregious until 10 years later...back then 8 year olds were not wise in the ways of the world....but it was certainly no way to treat mothet goose!!!
here's a sassy one I used to love:
You are old, father William...
"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
"In my youth," father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And you have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray what is the reason for that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment one shilling a box
Allow me to sell you a couple?"
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his fater, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs.
I can never remember the nursery rhymes until I either read them or hear someone say them.
goergie porgie
pudding and pie
kissed the girls
and made them cry
when the boys
came out to play
goergie porgie ran away
Wow, I've never heard these. Where do find these gems?
Rock a bye baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1auIgG19vsA
Oh Trin that is my favorite of them all it's so silly it really makes me laugh!!!!!!
Some days I feel like Old Mother Hubbard god knows I live in a cupboard!
I LOVE THIS ONE
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating his Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said, "What a good boy am I!"