A Silly Song and a Half!

Jack and Jill

Start up a hill

But stop at the house that Jack built.

There was a mouse

That hid in the house,

Which terrified Jill,

Who took to the hill—

For Jill was, all-in-all, a responsible girl and she stayed mindful of her commission—

namely fetching a pail of water.

Back at the house,

Still hiding the mouse,

Jack set out to jail

The pest in a pail;

And Jack—

Adept at catching mice, cats, dogs, mammals of all kinds, really—

Looked high and low and caught her.