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Master I Have

Traditional

ages 2 to 5nursery rhymesread aloudabout 22 seconds aloud

A galloping nonsense rhyme built largely from made-up words like gamberally and niggledy piggledy. The fun is entirely in the sound and speed of it, not in the sense.

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

Master I have, and I am his man,
    Gallop a dreary dun;
Master I have, and I am his man,
    And I'll get a wife as fast as I can;
With a heighty gaily gamberally,
    Higgledy piggledy, niggledy, niggledy,
    Gallop a dreary dun.

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

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