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The Crooked Sixpence

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 20 seconds aloud

A crooked man walks a crooked mile and gathers a crooked household to match, right down to the crooked cat and mouse. The repeated word is the whole game, and children love supplying it.

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

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence beside a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

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

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