Dear, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
Dear, dear! what can the matter be?
Two old women got up in an apple-tree;
One came down, and the other stayed till Saturday.
Notes
Here's another version of this rhyme:
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Johnny's so long at the fair.
He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons
To tie up my bonny brown hair.
Comments
The first version of the rhyme and the illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. The second version of the rhyme can be found in A History of Nursery Rhymes (1899) by Percy B. Green.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Read by Allyson Hester of Athens, Georgia.
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