Georgy kisses the girls and makes them cry, then bolts the moment the boys turn up. One of the shorter, punchier rhymes in the Mother Goose collection.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play,
Georgy Porgy ran away.
About this rhyme
Text confirms the kiss, the crying, and Georgy running off when the boys arrive. · Draft correctly avoids the disputed, unverified real-person identifications sometimes attached to this rhyme in folklore.
One of the best known rhymes going, though it's really just a handful of words of plot: a kiss, some crying, then Georgy running off the moment the boys turn up. Nobody in it gets caught, which is rather the point.
Say 'ran away' with a laugh and a scamper. Children like acting out the exit.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition
