Simple Simon

Origin
"Simple Simon" is a popular English language nursery rhyme.


 * The rhyme is as follows;
 * Simple Simon met a pieman,
 * Going to the fair;
 * Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
 * Let me taste your ware.


 * Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
 * Show me first your penny;
 * Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
 * Indeed I have not any.


 * Simple Simon went a-fishing,
 * For to catch a whale;
 * All the water he had got,
 * Was in his mother's pail.


 * Simple Simon went to look
 * If plums grew on a thistle;
 * He pricked his fingers very much,
 * Which made poor Simon whistle.