Buy Me a Milking-Pail
Buy Me a Milking-Pail
Children's Song
"Buy me a milking-pail,
Mother, mother."
"Betsy's gone a-milking,
Beautiful daughter."
"Sell my father's feather-bed,
Mother, mother."
"Where will your father lie,
Beautiful daughter?"
"Put him in the boys' bed,
Mother, mother."
"Where will the boys lie,
Beautiful daughter?"
"Put them in the pigs' stye,
Mother, mother."
"Where will the pigs lie,
Beautiful daughter?"
"Put them in the salting-tub,
Mother, mother.
Put them in the salting-tub,
Mother, mother."
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme and illustration can be found in The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (circa 1920) edited by Walter Jerrold (1865 - 1929) and illustrated by Charles Robinson (with some graphical editing by Lisa Yannucci).
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