A tiny counting rhyme built almost entirely from its own nonsense refrain. Two birds vanish one by one until only the stone is left, with the fa-la-la carrying the tune along. Short enough to repeat straight through twice.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There were two birds sat on a stone,
Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;
One flew away, and then there was one,
Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;
The other bird flew after,
And then there was none,
Fa, la, la, la, lal, de;
And so the stone
Was left alone,
Fa, la, la, la, lal, de.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition