Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (Stole the Pig) - English Children's Songs - England - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs and Rhymes from Around the World - Intro Image

Notes

Here's the version from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright:

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he run,
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom ran crying down the street.

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

The 1st illustration comes from The National Nursery Book. The 2nd illustration is from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith and the 3rd one is from The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (circa 1920) edited by Walter Jerrold (1865 – 1929) and illustrated by Charles Robinson. The sheet music and tune are from The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane.

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