* An all time favourite activity for parties, picnics and get togethers for assured entertainment and laughter

* She sells seashells by the seashore

The shells she sells are surely seashells

So if she sells shells on the seashore

I'm sure she sells seashore shells

* Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked

* Betty Botter had some butter

But, she said, this butter's bitter

If I bake this bitter butter

it would make my batter bitter

But a bit of better butter

that would make my batter better

* So she bought a bit of butter

better than her bitter butter

and she baked it in her batter

and the batter was not bitter

So 'twas better Betty Botter

bought a bit of better butter

* A big black bug bit a big black bear

made the big black bear bleed blood

* I am not the pheasant plucker

I'm the pheasant plucker's mate

I am only plucking pheasants

'cause the pheasant plucker's running late

* A flea and a fly flew up in a flue

Said the flea, Let us fly

Said the fly, Let us flee

So they flew through a flaw in the flue

* A bitter biting bittern

Bit a better brother bittern

And the bitter better bittern

Bit the bitter biter back

And the bitter bittern, bitten

By the better bitten bittern

Said: I'm a bitter biter bit, alack

* Mr. See owned a saw

And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw

Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw

Before Soar saw See

Which made Soar sore

Had Soar seen See's saw

Before See sawed Soar's seesaw

See's saw would not have sawed

Soar's seesaw

So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw

But it was sad to see Soar so sore

Just because See's saw sawed

Soar's seesaw

* I cannot bear to see a bear

Bear down upon a hare

When bare of hair he strips the hare

  Right there I cry, "Forbear