Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
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 they were still a-fleeting
Then up she took her little crook
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed
But it made her heart bleed
For they'd left their tales 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 need a sigh and wiped her eye
And over the hillocks she raced;
And tried what she could as a shepherdess should
That each tail should be properly placed
