Oh, My Pretty Cock, Oh, My Handsome Cock

The Real Mother Goose. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.

Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock,
I pray you, do not crow before day,
And your comb shall be made of the very beaten gold,
And your wings of the silver so gray.


Cock-a-Doodle-Do

Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. 1920.

Oh, my pretty cock! Oh, my handsome cock!
  I pray you, do not crow before day,
And your comb shall be made of the very beaten gold,
  And your wings of the silver so gray.

Tags - Animal - Chicken - Rooster - Cock - Crowing - Comb - Gold - Wings - Silver -

Origin - Europe - British Isles -