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Old Mother Goose - English Children's Songs - England - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs and Rhymes from Around the World, Intro Image


Old Mother Goose

Old Mother Goose,
When she used to wander,
Would ride through the sky
On a very fine gander.
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The words to the longer version in the first mp3 are below...

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Here's a slight variation of this rhyme from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright:

Old Mother Goose, when
She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

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Here's a longer version I found in Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories, The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 (1917) - This version is in the 1st mp3 above:

Old Mother Goose, when
She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.
Mother Goose had a house,
'T was built in a wood,
Where an owl at the door
For sentinel stood.
She had a son Jack,
A plain-looking lad;
He was not very good,
Nor yet very bad.
She sent him to market,
A live goose he bought:
"Here! mother," says he,
"It will not go for nought."
Jack's goose and her gander
Grew very fond;
They'd both eat together,
Or swim in one pond.
Jack found one morning,
As I have been told,
His goose had laid him
An egg of pure gold.
Jack rode to his mother,
The news for to tell.
She called him a good boy,
And said it was well.

There's a longer version of this rhyme that contains antisemitic elements that I didn't feel comfortable posting here. -Mama Lisa

1st illustration by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The 2nd illustration comes from The Bo-Peep Story Books edited by Clara de Chatelain. The 3rd illustration is from Mother Goose, The Original Volland Edition (1915), edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Frederick Richardson.

1st mp3 recited by Ruth Golding and the 2nd read by Allyson Hester of Athens, Georgia for Librivox.

 
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