Needles and pins, needles and pins,

When a man marries his trouble begins.

Once I saw a little bird,

Come hop¹, hop, hop;

So I cried, "Little bird,

Will you stop, stop, stop?"

And was going to the window,

To say, "How do you do?"

When he shook his little tail,

And far away he flew.

Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold;

Pease-pudding in the pot, nine days old.

Queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey.

Ride a-cock horse to Banbury Cross,

To see an old woman get up on her horse;

Rings on her fingers and bells at her toes,

And so she makes music wherever she goes.

Simple Simon met a pieman,

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Let me taste your ware²!"