Fun with Mother Goose

by Lauraine Lombara Alberetti

Taking a walk alone, I started reciting nursery rhymes and songs.  However, I found I could only remember a first line and maybe a second but beyond that, I made up a few more lines.  I had fun doing this and thought it might also be fun as a game for children(or adults) who knew these rhymes, to make up disparate endings. If they rhyme, that’s fine but anything should be acceptable...it would solely be a creative mind-expanding, fun exercise/game.

Here are a few I created:  (with acknowledgement and thanks  to Mother Goose).

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water,

A storm came on, it was full of hail and

What a ruckus it made in the pail!

A tisket a tasket, I found a yellow basket,

I piled a bunch of flowers in

And took them for a little spin.

Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John,

Went to bed with his trousers on.

One foot in and one foot out,

What is this all about?

Little boy blue come blow your horn,

The sheep’s in the meadow,

The cow’s in the corn.

Where has the boy blue gone? It’s not the time to sleep,

If you don’t work, you don’t reap!

Jack Spratt could eat no fat,

His wife could eat no lean.

They each were fat and skinny,

And nothing in between.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Good thing the sun had baked him,

He didn’t ooze at all.

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey.

Along came a spider, who sat down beside her,

And said, “What a mighty fine day!”

Wee Willie Winkie,

Runs through the town,

Upstairs, downstairs, in his nightgown.

Naughty Willie Winkie,

He better not trip…

We wouldn’t want to see his nightgown rip.