Sweet Porridge

- Author unknown - 

A little girl walked in the wood

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She had no longer any food

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A lttle girl, a kind little girl 

went walking in the wood one day

She met an old wise woman there

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Who gave her cooking pot to her

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The little girl, the kind little girl 

listened to what the old woman did say

When you are hungry then you say

Cook! Little Pot, cook!

When you've had enough you say

Stop! Little Pot, stop!

The little girl, the kind little girl

took the cooking pot home to her mother

Then they had enough to eat

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And were not hungry any more

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The little girl, the kind little girl

left her mother alone one day

The mother was hungry and did say

Cook! Little Pot, cook!

And then she knew not what to say

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The porridge bubbled over the side of the pot!

The porridge ran all over town

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Until the little girl came home

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The little girl, the kind little girl

Knew just what to say, she said

Stop! Little Pot, stop!

And the porridge stopped.

But from that day on

Whenever you visited that town

You had to eat your way in.