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Bah, Bah, Black Sheep
BAH, bah, black Sheep,
   Have you any Wool?
Yes, marry have I,
   Three Bags full;
One for my master,
   One for my Dame,
But none for the little Boy
   Who cries in the Lane.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, As First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. About A.D., 1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. [Reprinted by Singing Tree Press, Book Tower, 1969] p. 59.

BAH, bah, black sheep, have you any wool,
Yes, marry have I, three bags full:
One for my master, and one for my dame, 
But none for the little boy who cries in the lane.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 6.

Bah, bah, black sheep, 
   Have you any wool? 
Yes, marry, have I, 
   Three bags full:
One for my master, 
   And one for my dame, 
But none for the little boy
   Who cries in the lane.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 109. No. DLXXXV

Bah! Bah! Black Sheep, 
   Have you any wool? 
Yes, marry, have I, 
   Three bags full.
There's one for my master, 
   And one for my dame, 
But none for the naughty boy
   Who cries in the lane.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 117. No. XVII in Nursery Jingles section

BAH, bah, black Sheep,
   Have you any Wool?
"Yes, marry, have I,
   Three Bags full:
One for my master,
   And one for my dame,
But none for the little boy
   Who cries in the Lane."

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 240.

Baa, baa, black sheep,
   Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
   Three bags full;
One for the master,
   And one for the dame, 
And one for the little boy
   Who lives down the lane.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.88. No. 55

Bah, Bah black Sheep,
Have you any Wool?
Yes merry have I, 
Three Bags full,
One for my Master,
One for my Dame, 
One for my little Boy
That lives in the lane. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 33. No. 16



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