A Little Old Man and I Fell Out
A Little Old Man and I Fell Out
Nursery Rhyme
A little old man and I fell out;
"How shall we bring this matter about?"
"Bring it about as well as you can;
Get you gone, you little old man!"
The version from The Real Mother Goose (1916) is as follows:
My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 'twas all about,--
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun.
Here's the illustration from The Real Mother Goose that goes with this rhyme...
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897). The 2nd illustration can be found in The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (circa 1920) edited by Walter Jerrold (1865 – 1929) and illustrated by Charles Robinson and the 3rd is from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.
