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The Girl in the Lane

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 13 seconds aloud

A tongue-twisting pair of portraits, a girl who can't speak plain and a man who can't stand still, each rendered in comic sound-effect words. Great fun to perform with a wobble in the voice.

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

The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain,
  Cried, "Gobble, gobble, gobble":
The man on the hill that couldn't stand still,
  Went hobble hobble, hobble.

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

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