There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; 

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, 

And they all lived together in a little crooked house. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 14-15. No. XLVIII

THERE was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, 

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; 

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, 

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

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. 41.

THERE was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile: 

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, 

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 57.

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, 

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; 

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, 

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 289. No. 324

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, 

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; 

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, 

And they all lived together in a little crooked house. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 148. No. 224