中间儿歌的原文:
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn't know where to find them.
But leave them alone, and they'll come home,
All wagging their tails behind them."
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke she found it a joke,
For still they were a-fleeting.
So up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them,
Found them, indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them!
It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
To a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side.
All hung on a tree to dry!
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye
And ran over hill and dale, oh.
And tried what she could
As a shepherdess should,
To tack to each sheep its tail, oh.
Little Bo-Peep no more did weep;
My tale of tails ends here.
Each cat has one,
But sheep have none;
Which, after all, is queer!