Simple Simon met a pieman

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Let me taste your ware."


Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

"Show me first your penny."

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Indeed, I have not any."


Simple Simon went a-fishing

For to catch a whale;

But all the water he had got

Was in his mother's pail.


He went to catch a dickybird,

And thought he could not fail,

Because he had a pinch of salt

To put upon its tail.