(Pick A Letter to Choose a Rhyme!)

This game is played while gently touching the child's face (features)...

 

The words to the version on the mp3 are in the Notes below...

•  MP3 Recording of Here Sits the Lord Mayor

Notes

The version below has a slightly different ending (you can hear it on the mp3):

Here sits the Lord Mayor,
Here sit his two men,
Here sits the cock,
And here sits the hen;
Here sit the chickens,
And here they go in,
Chippety, chippety, chippety chin.

Game Instructions

Order to touch the parts of the face:

Forehead.
Eyes.
Right cheek.
Left cheek.
Tip of nose.
Mouth.

Chuck the chin.

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 illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.

Recited by Ruth Golding for Librivox.