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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.
Source with more info: http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/rhymes/blue/vv.aspx
Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England.
London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 110. No. DLXXXIX
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