Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep And can't tell where to find them Leave then alone, and they'll come home And bring their tales behind them Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep And dreamt she heard them bleating But when she awoke, she found it a joke For still they were all fleeting
	Then up she took her little crook Determined for to find the, She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed For they'd left their tails behind them It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray Along a meadow hard by There she espied their tails side by side All hung up on a tree to dry She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye And ran o'er hill and dale, O And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should To tack to each sheep its tail, O