A hen who's laid an egg frets she'll have to go barefoot, and a cock reports he's searched every shop in town for a shoe to fit her. The old-fashioned dialect words reward a slow, expressive read.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
"Cock, cock, cock, cock,
I've laid an egg,
Am I to gang ba—are-foot?"
"Hen, hen, hen, hen,
I've been up and down
To every shop in town,
And cannot find a shoe
To fit your foot,
If I'd crow my hea—art out."
About this rhyme
A grumbling dialogue between a cock who's laid an egg and can't go about barefoot, and a hen who's tried every shop in town and still can't find him a shoe. It's silly rather than sensible: the roles are swapped, since it's usually the hen that lays and the cock that crows, and here the cock's done the laying while the hen talks about crowing. A couple of words break apart mid line too, so drag them out and let the laugh land.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition