Another flying pig, this one brought down by "the man in brown." The last lines tumble down the page in a little staircase, which is fun to read aloud in a falling voice. Pure nonsense, no plot required.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Dickory, dickory, dare,
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown soon brought
him down,
Dickory,
dickory,
dare.
About this rhyme
This is a nonsense rhyme, a close cousin of Hickory Dickory Dock, which shares its opening beat. It appears in old printed collections of nursery rhymes alongside it. There is nothing to decode here and no hidden meaning: a pig flies up, a man in brown fetches it down, and the sounds do the work. Rhymes like this were made to be fun in the mouth, not to teach a lesson.
Use your arms. Send them up on 'flew up in the air' and bring the pig back to the ground on the line that follows. Keep it quick and a bit daft. It works well for a toddler who likes a rhyme with a big movement in the middle.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition