Little Bo-Peep, has lost her sheep,

And doesn't know where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they'll come home,

And bring 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 they where still all fleeting.


Then up she took her little crook,

Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heard bleed,

For they'd left their tails behind them.


It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

Into 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 over the hillocks went rambling,

And tried what she could, as shepherdess should,

To tack again each to its lambkin.