Dear, Dear! What Can the Matter Be? - English Children's Songs - England - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs and Rhymes from Around the World  - Intro Image

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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.

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Read by Allyson Hester of Athens, Georgia.