Little Bo Peep lost all her sheep With a note no bank would carry. She kept one lamb That she called Sam And she gave it to Mary.
Category: Mangled Nursery Rhymes
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Little Bo Peep
July 2nd, 2019 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes
Shoe Lady
June 9th, 2019 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes, Poems for Children
There was an old lady Who lived in a shoe. It wouldn’t have been bad, Had it only been new. If it was like mine, She probably said “Phew!”
Nursery Crimes
December 26th, 2018 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes
Last night Dad read a poem about Some kid’s cradle in a treetop. The wind blew so hard that it caused The kid and cradle both to drop. There’s not a clue about the kid; What happened after he fell down? Did he end up like poor old Jack, Who tripped and fell and broke […]
Little Boy Blue
December 9th, 2018 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes
Why do you suppose Little Boy Blue turned blue When the cows got into the corn? Do you think, maybe, It had something to do With the way that he blew his horn?
Candle Stick Jack
October 26th, 2018 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes, Poems for Children
Was Jack so nimble? Was Jack so quick? Or was it the fire On the candlestick?
Wayne Edwards is a native Texan, graduate of Texas A&M University, and retired Air Force officer. He lives, with his wife Ruth, on a fish farm in Texas, in an underground house he built himself. Wayne can be reached via e-mail at 