This rhyme can be found in A History of Nursery Rhymes (1899) by Percy B. Green. Green wrote about this rhyme, "Selling the church bells of Hutton, in Lincolnshire, gave rise to this satire of the children"…
The Poor Hutton People
The poor Hutton people
Sold their bells to mend the steeple.
Ah! wicked people,
To sell their bells
To build the steeple.
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