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Young Lambs to Sell

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 17 seconds aloud

Another street cry set to rhyme, this one from a seller who wishes he never had to call his lambs for sale. Its repeated refrain gives children something to chime in on.

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

If I'd as much money as I could tell,
I never would cry young lambs to sell;
Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell;
I never would cry young lambs to sell.

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

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