A rhyme about choosing your own path, sung by someone who'd rather be a fiddler's wife than anyone's Jack or Jill. The repeated chorus line makes it easy to join in.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
I won't be my father's Jack,
I won't be my father's Jill;
I will be the fiddler's wife,
And have music when I will.
T'other little tune,
T'other little tune,
Prithee, Love, play me
T'other little tune.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition