A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Game Rhymes/IV. PRETTY LITTLE GIRL

by Sabine Baring-Gould

See this pretty little girl of mine,
She has brought me a bottle of wine.
Bottle of wine and biscuits too;
See what this pretty girl can do!
On the carpet she shall kneel,
As the grass grows on the field.
Stand upright upon your feet,
Choose you one that you love sweet.
Now you're married I wish you joy,
First a girl and then a boy.
Seven years after a son and daughter,
Pray, young couple, kiss together.
First she bought a wooden ladle,
Then she bought a wooden vradle,
The very next day the babe was born,
Rock, rock the cradle, rock, rock the cradle.