The Neighborhood Mother Goose
©Nina Crews 2004 Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet and so are you!
Dance, little baby, dance up high!
Never mind, baby, Mother is by.
Crow and caper, caper and crow,
There, little baby, there you go.
Up to the ceiling, down to the ground,
Backward and forward, round and round.
Dance, little baby, and Mother shall sing,
With a merry gay coral, ding, ding-a-ding, ding!