Percy B. Green, who wrote "A History of Nursery Rhymes" (1899), gave this variation of See-saw:

See-saw a penny a day,
Tommy must have a new master.
Why must he have but a penny a day?
Because he can work no faster.

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

See-Saw

See-saw, Margery Daw,
Sold her bed and lay upon straw.

The illustration at the top of the page is from Mother Goose, The Original Volland Edition (1915), edited and arranged by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Frederick Richardson (with some graphical editing by Mama Lisa).

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