Once I Saw a Little Bird

DESCRIPTION: "Once I saw a little bird Come hop, hop, hop, And I cried, 'Little bird, Will you stop, stop stop?" I was going to the window To say, 'How do you do?' But it shook its little tail And it flew away." (Or, "And away it flew, flew, flew," with gestures)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: bird | gestures flying
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 46, "Once I Saw a Little Bird" (1 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 91, "I Saw a Little Bird" (1 text)
Roud #20625
File: OO20046

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