A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Nut Tree

by Sabine Baring-Gould

IV. THE NUT TREE

 

I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg, and a golden pear.
The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me,
And all was because of my little nut tree.
I skipped over the water, I danced over the sea,
And all the birds of the air, they couldn't catch me.