I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear

But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;

The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me, 

And all was because of my little nut-tree. 

I skipp'd over water, I danced over sea,

And all the birds in the air couldn't catch me. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 2. No. V

I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear

But a silver nutmeg, and a golden pear.

The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me, 

And all was because of my little nut-tree. 

I skipped over the water, I danced over the sea,

And all the birds of the air, they couldn't catch me.

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. 10. No. IV

I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear

   But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;

The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me, 

And all was because of my little nut-tree. 

I skipp'd over water, I danced over sea,

And all the birds in the air couldn't catch me. 

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p.35.

I had a little nut tree,

   Nothing would it bear

But a silver nutmeg

   And a golden pear;



The King of Spain's daughter

   Came to visit me, 

And all for the sake

   Of my little nut tree.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, pp.330-331. No. 381

I had a little nut tree,

   Nothing would it bear

But a silver nutmeg

   And a golden pear;

The King of Spain's daughter

   Came to visit me, 

And all for the sake

   Of my little nut tree.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 106. No. 130