LITTLE boy blue, come blow up your horn, 

The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;

Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep? 

He's under the hay-cock fast asleep. 

Will you wake him?  No, not I;

For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 110. No. DLXXXIX

LITTLE boy blue, come blow up your horn, 

The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.

Where is the little boy, minding the sheep? 

Under the haycock fast asleep!

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. 21.

Little boy Blue, blow your horn, 

The cow's in the meadow, the sheep in the corn.

But where is the little boy tending the sheep? 

He's under the hayrick fast asleep.

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. 128. No. XLVI in Nursery Jingles section

LITTLE boy blue, come, blow up your horn; 

   The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.

"Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?" 

"He's under the hay-cock fast asleep." 

"Will you wake him?"  "No, not I;

For if I do, he'll be sure to cry."

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, pp. 241-242.

Little Boy Blue,

   Come blow your horn,

The sheep's in the meadow,

   The cow's in the corn;

But where is the boy

   Who looks after the sheep?

He's under a haycock,

   Fast Asleep.

Will you wake him?

   No, not I,

For if I do,

   He's sure to cry.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, pp. 98-99. No. 74

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, 

The cow's in the meadow, the sheep in the corn:

But where is the little boy tending the sheep? 

He's under the hay-cock fast asleep. 

Will you wake him? No, not I, 

For if I do, he's sure to cry.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 46. No. 31