LADY bird, lady bird, 

Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone, 

All but one, and her name is Ann, 

And she crept under the pudding-pan.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 106. No. DLXII

LADY-BIRD, Lady-Bird, 

   Fly away home,

Your house is on fire, 

   Your children at home.

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. 23.

LADY bird, lady bird, fly away home;

   Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone-- 

All but one, and her name is Ann, 

And she crept under the pudding-pan.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 235.

Ladybird, ladybird,

   Fly away home,

Your house is on fire

   And your children all gone;

All except one

   And that's little Ann

And she has crept under 

    The warming pan.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 263. No. 296

Lady Bird, Lady Bird, 

Fly away home,

Your house is on fire, 

Your children will burn.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 209. No. 467