Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can’t tell where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they’ll come home,

And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,

And dreamt she heard them bleating;

But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still all
fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they’d left
their tails behind them.

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

Into a meadow hard by,

There she espied their tails side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,

And over the hillocks went rambling,

And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack again each
to its lambkin.