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Boy and Girl

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 25 seconds aloud

A short dialogue between two children working up the courage for a first kiss. Simple, sweet, and over in eight lines.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

There was a little boy and a little girl
    Lived in an alley;
Says the little boy to the little girl,
    "Shall I, oh, shall I?"
Says the little girl to the little boy,
    "What shall we do?"
Says the little boy to the little girl,
    "I will kiss you."

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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