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The Quarrel

Traditional

ages 2 to 5nursery rhymesread aloudabout 15 seconds aloud

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.

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

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