Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)
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Simple Simon is a nursery rhyme which begins:
- Simple Simon met a pieman
- Going to the fair;
- Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
- "Let me taste your ware."
- Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
- "Show me first your penny."
- Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
- "Indeed I have not any."
Because of this, he became a comic foil in pantomime, most commonly Mother Goose.
[edit] Variation
The Three Stooges did a variant version, which began the usual way, and ended this way...
- Said de pieman to Simple Simon,
- "Foist let me see yah penny."
- Said Simple Simon to de pieman,
- "Nah! Ya don't get any!"
- (And a pie in the face)
