A cockerel crows over a small domestic muddle, a lost shoe and a lost fiddle-stick. Cheerful and easy to sing on a rising-and-falling tune.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Cock-a-doodle-do!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddle-stick
And knows not what to do.
Cock-a-doodle-do!
What is my dame to do?
Till master finds his fiddle-stick,
She'll dance without her shoe.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition