Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep And doesn't know where to find them Leave them alone and they'll come home Wagging their tails behind them ♪ Little Bo Peep fell fast asleep And dreamed she heard them bleating But when she awoke, she found it a joke For they were still all fleeting ♪ Then up she took her little crook Determined for to find them She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed For they left their tails behind them ♪ It happened one day, as Bo Peep did stray Into a meadow hard by There she espied their tails side by side All hung on a tree to dry ♪ She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye And over the hillocks went rambling And tried what she could As a shepherdess should To tack each again to its lambkin ♪ Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep And doesn't know where to find them Leave them alone and they'll come home Wagging their tails behind them