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It’s a riddle! The answer is: a candle! (Other titles include Little Nancy Etticoat, Little Nanny Etticoat, Little Nan Etticoat)
Version 1
Lyrics
(Traditional chant)
Mother Goose
Little Nanny Etticoat
In a white petticoat and a red rose.
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows.
Version 2
Lyrics
(Music by Ruth McConn Spencer, Lyrics by Adelaide Baylor)
Little Miss Etticoat in a white petticoat,
Shorter and shorter she grows,
Oh how she suffers, while we with the snuffers
Are nipping her little red nose.
See also
- Type: nursery rhyme / chant
- Subject: clothes
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Meter: 3
- Scale: major
- Rhythm: ties
- Version 1 source
- Version 2 source: Introductory Music, Music Education Series, by Thaddeus P. Giddings, Will Earhart, Ralph L. Baldwin, Elbridge W. Newton, Ginn and Company, 1923
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- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
Lyrics
Little Miss Etticoat in a white petticoat,
Shorter and shorter she grows;
Oh, how she suffers while we with the snuffers
Are nipping her little red nose.