Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
‘These are little rhymes that I learnt as a chap,
On me way home from school”
Chorus
There was a little girl an’ her name was Nellie,
Stud in water up to her knees….
Doesn’t rhyme very well, doesn’t rhyme very well.
‘Cos the water wasn’t deep enough.
High diddle diddle, the cat done a piddle.
All over the kitchen floor.
The little dog laughed to see such fun.
So the cat done a little bit more.
Jack n’ Jill went up the hill.
That was where he brought her.
Jill came down with a half a crown.
An it wasn’t for a carrying water.
Chorus
There was little girl an’ her name was Nellie.
Stud in water up to her knees.
That doesn’t rhyme very well, doesn’t rhyme very well.
‘Cos the water wasn’t deep enough.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jumped over the candle stick.
Silly boy he should have jumped higher.
Goodness, gracious great balls of fire!!
Adam an’ Eve in the garden dwelt.
They were oh so jolly.
I wonder would they be so jolly.
If the leaves they wore were holly.
Chorus
There was a little girl an’ her name was Nellie.
Stud in water up to her knees.
Doesn’t rhyme very well, doesn’t rhyme very well.
‘Cos the water wasn’t deep enough.
There was a young nun called Vera.
Who wouldn’t let anyone near her.
When a crafty auld monk, got into her bunk.
An’ now she’s a Mother Superior.
Chorus
There was a little girl an’ her name was Nellie.
Stud in water up to her knees.
That doesn’t rhyme very well, doesn’t rhyme very well.
‘Cos the water wasn’t deep enough.
There was a little girl an’ her name was Nellie.
Stud in water up to her knees.
That doesn’t rhyme very well, doesn’t rhyme very well.
‘Cos the water wasn’t deep enough.
The water wasn’t deep enough….