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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Baa Baa Black Sheep is a nursery rhyme, now sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman. The original form of the tune is used for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet song.
Music:
Standard version
- Baa, baa, black sheep,
- Have you any wool?
- Yes sir, yes sir,
- Three bags full.
- One for the master,
- One for the dame,
- And one for the little boy
- Who lives down the lane.
Variants
In Mother Goose’s Melody (circa 1765) the last lines run:
- But none for the little boy
- Who cries in the lane.[1]
An old variant of the ending runs:
- Two for the master,
- one for the dame,
- but none for the little boy
- who lives down the lane.
