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Boys and Girls Come Out to Play

[ Roud 5452 ; Ballad Index FlBr187 ; trad.]

Tim Hart and Maddy Prior sang Boys and Girls Come Out to Play in 1981 on Tim Hart and Friends’ album My Very Favourite Nursery Rhyme Record. This track was later included on their compilation CD Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Other Children’s Songs.

Lyrics

Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon does shine as bright as day.
Leave your supper and leave your sleep,
And join your playfellows in the street.

Come with a whoop and come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A ha’penny loaf will serve us all;

You find milk and I’ll find flour,
And we’ll have pudding in half an hour.
Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon does shine as bright as day.

Come with a whoop and come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A ha’penny loaf will serve us all;

Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon does shine as bright as day.
Leave your supper and leave your sleep,
And join your playfellows in the street.