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 dreamt she heard them bleating And when she awoke She found it a joke For they were still a-fleeting Then she took up her little crook Determined to find them She found them indeed It made her heart bleed For they'd left their tales behind them It happened one day As Bo Peep did stray Into a green meadow hard by There she espied their tales side by side All hung on a big tree to dry She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye And over the hillocks went rambling She tried what she could As a shepherdess should To tack again each to its lambkin Baa-baa-baa-baa