Two robins go to town for a bun, can't agree on plum or plain, and go home empty-handed. A tidy little rhyme about indecision.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
A robin and a robin's son
Once went to town to buy a bun.
They couldn't decide on plum or plain,
And so they went back home again.
About this rhyme
A tiny comic tale of indecision: a robin and his son go to town for a bun, cannot agree on plum or plain, and simply go home again. No moral, no resolution, just the joke of two fusspots giving up.
Good for a child who cannot decide between two treats either.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition