Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.
Little Bo Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating.
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were all still fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.
Rhyme : Little Bo Peep
It happened one day, as Bo Peep did stray,
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack again each to its lambkin.
Little Bo Peep has found her sheep,
And now they all gladly follow.
She smiles and laughs, and strokes their soft backs,
And drives them home to their meadow.
**********************************************************