A tiny domestic tiff: an old couple fall out because she has money and he has none. It is over in four lines, more comic shrug than real argument.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 'twas all about,—
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun.
About this rhyme
Text matches exactly, four lines: money vs none, 'and that's the way the noise begun.'
A quarrel reduced to its bare cause: one had money, the other had none, and that's the entire noise explained in four lines. There's no resolution, no side taken, just the honesty of naming exactly why people fall out. Say 'and that's the way the noise begun' like the last word in an argument, because it is.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition