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Lords of the Nursery
 Wait in a row,
Five on the high wall,
 And four on the low;
Big Kings and Little Kings,
 Brown Bears and Black,
All of them waiting
 Till John comes back.

Some think that John boy
 Is lost in the wood,
Some say he couldn’t be,
 Some say he could.
Some think that John boy
 Hides on the hill;
Some say he won’t come back,
 Some say he will.