A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Nursery Jingles/XXXVI.

by Sabine Baring-Gould

Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail,
The bravest man among them durstn't touch its tail.
The snail put out its horns, like a little duncow,
Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all now.