Sung while playing the "cobbler and the tinker" at a wake.You sing 'cob' and you sing 'lay'
You take ten and you take thray
The cobblers and the tinker
Merry be the first and merry be the last
With the cobbler and the tinker. Also Humpty dumpty thrump the thray
The cow was sold the market day
Has many horns stands up." In the cobbler game played at a wake long ago one person knelt down, covered his face with another person's knees.
The leader came & pounding his (the kneelers ) back with his fists recited that rhyme and at the end stuck up (say) four fingers. If the person kneeling was unable to guess accurately the number the formula was gone through again for three times.

dumpty got a great fall, all the kings men or all the Kings horses, would not put humpty, dumpty together again;_ (An egg.
25. A lepper of thorns, and a lepper of ditches, a little brown goat, with two leather horns:-
(A hare)
26. I have a little house and its not fit for a mouse, and there is as many windows in it as there is in the Kings Palace:- (A thimble)
27. I went up the stairs one morning with a box of matches, to light the candle, and to light the fire, which of them did I light first:- (The match).
28. Two black men and two white men went for a drive in a car, the two black men ate one white man, what was the number of the car:- (281)
29. Why is a horse never hungry:- (Because he has a bit in his mouth).
30. A lazy old woman, a hard working father, twelve little children and all the same colour:- (The face of a clock)
31. What is it that is cut and passed and never eaten:- ( a pack of cards).
32. What is it that runs fast and has n feet:- (Water)
33. As white as milk, as black as silk, and hops on the ground like hailstones:- (a magpie)
34. I had a roomful but I could not give a spoonful. (Smoke).

wall,
Humpty, Dumpty, got a great
fall,
All the King's horses and all
the King's men,
Couldn't get the poor fellow
together again.
Answer :- "An egg."What has teeth but it can't bite.?
Answer :- "A garden rake.""What is the difference between a Scotch man and a canoe ?"
Answer :- "One tips and the doesn't"What does an artist draw the best" ?
Answer :- "His wages".Why is a baker never broke ?.
Answer :- "Because he's always making dough".

Answer :- A gun.One night I looked out in my golden window,
I saw two dead men fighting
Two blind men looking on,
Two cripples running for the policemen
And two dummies saying
"hurry on"
Answer :- A lie.What has no toes and has a foot.?
Answer :- The foot of a mountain.Why does a hen pick the pot ?
Answer :- "Because she can't lick it."To what coat can buttons not be sewn.?
Answer :- "A coat of paint."What is this ?.
Humpty, Dumpty, sat on a

Q. Why is a hill different to a pill ?
A. One is hard to get up, and the other is hard to get down.Q. As I went up the hill of wonders
I saw twenty four blackbirds tearing the hill asunder ?
A. A spring-harrow.Q. Humpty-backed father, big-belled mother,
Three dirty children, all the one colour?
A. A pot and pot-hangers.Q. A little white and round house,
Inside is all meat,
It has no doors or windows,
For me to go in and eat?
A. An egg.

fire the first. A. Light the match first.
Q. What goes up the ladder with their heads down. A. The nails in your boots.
Q. A row of white horses standing in a stall up came a white bull and licked them all.
A. Your tounge licking your teeth.
Q. A humpty backed father a hallow bellied mother and three dirty children.
A. A pot with three legs unde it.
Q. Black and white went up the hill black came down and white stood still.
A. A hen laying an egg.
Q. A leaper a ditches a cutter of corn a little brown cow with two leather horns.
A. A hare
Q. What part of the cow goes over the ditch first.
A Her breath.

You sir
All the same to you sir
Y.O.U.
7.
I'm riding round the banister
The banisters
The banisters
I'm riding round the banisters
Y.O.U.While saying the last verse he walks round the line and While he is saying Y.O.U. he tips and brings her over with him again then htey start the rhyme over again.Here are the words of "A duck goes a riding."
1.
A duck goes a riding
A riding
A riding
A duck goes a riding
Humpty Dumpthy Teddy bow-wow2.
What are you riding here for
Here for
Here for
What are you riding here for

not put Humpty Dumpty together again
Ans = An Egg.(3) Its deep its damp,
Its green over the bank.
Its fit for Lord or Lady.
Ans = A grave.(4) When is a penny like a hermit?
Ans : When it is aloan (alone).(5) What always walks with its head down.?
Ans = A nail in your boot.(6) The poor man has it,
The rich man wants it,
The miser spends it,
The spender saves it.
Ans : Nothing.(7) It runs around the house and looks in on the key-hole
Ans : The Wind.

(1) A stick standing in the bed half green, half red, any lady in the land couldn't take it in her hand.
Answer A Carrot
(2) Tis here, 'tis there, 'tis every where, it stands in the castle garden, it takes a bit as big as a horse, and after all it doesn't eat the grass.
Answer A scythe
(3) The more you take from it the bigger it gets
Answer A grave
(4) Where did the cock crow that all the world heard him.
Answer In Noah's ark
(5) 'Tis red and 'tis blue and tis sparkling green.
Answer: The rainbow
(6) What is the oldest tree in the wood.
Answer The elder tree
(7) As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Kerry would not fill it up
Answer A well
(8) What goes all round the wood and never goes into it.
Answer The bark of a tree
(9) A humpty backed father a hollowed back mother, three dirty children all like one another.
Answer: A three legged-post

favoured man. Though he marries many a wife. He still lives single all his life.
Ans. A priest.
Black and white and read all over.
Ans. A paper.
Humpty dumpty say on the wall and he got a great fall and all the king's horses and all his men would not put him on the wall again.
Ans. A broken egg.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man.
Ans. A penny
All patches no stitches riddle me that and I will give you a penny.
Ans. A head of cabbage.
What has more corners than holes.
Ans. A riddle.
As I looked out of my uncle's window I saw the dead carrying the living.
Ans. A Ship.
What goes up the stairs white and comes down read.
Ans. A paper.
What part of a cart goes into a wood first

Q. The man that made it, made it to sell, the man that bought it did not want it and the man that wanted it, did not see it.?
A. A Coffin.
Q. A humpty backed father a down hearted mother three young children all the same colour?
A. A pot.
Q. If I was in the sun and you were out of it what would the sun be?
A. Sin.
Q. Two good brothers we are, great burdens we bear, we're full all day and empty and cold at night?
A. A pair of boots.
Q. Why is the letter "D" like a cross child?
A. Because it makes "ma" mad.
Q. What is the longest word in the world?
A. Smiles, because there is a mile in the middle of it.
Q. Constantinople is a big word if you cannot spell it your the biggest dunce in the world?
A. It.
Q. Hink, hank under the bank ten drawing four?
A. A person milking a cow.
Q. Patches upon patches without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll give you a britches?
A. A head of cabbage.

Q. Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess all your life time and would you not guess that?
A. a pipe.
Q. Which is the right side of a wedding cake?
A. The side which is eaten because the other is left.
Q. Why does a bull dribble?
A. Because he cannot spit out.
Q. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
A. Because she cannot look under it.
Q. What part of a horse goes into the house first?
A. His breath.
Q. A humpty-backed father a three leged mother all the children and they roaring together?
A. A pot of boiling potatoes.
Q. What has one eye and cannot see?
A. A needle.
Q. What is brought to a table, cut and never eaten?
A. A deck of cards.

1. I have a little sister above in the field: when you pull her leg her nose will bleed?
A pump2. What four letters would frighten a thief?
O, I, G, U3. A humpty backed mother, a lazy old father, three little children all the same colour?
A pot4. What is it that's full of holes and yet holds water?
A sponge5. I have a little sister she sits by the wall, give her more or less and she will have it and give her water and she will die?
The fire6. I washed my face in water that never rained or run and I dried it in a towel that was never woven nor spun?
The dew and sun7. What has a neck and body and nothing else?
A bottle8. Which ship should we all like to avoid.
Hardship9. Why should a hen be never untidy?
Because she carries her comb with her.

What stands outside the wood
And eats inside?
PigWhy is a room full of married people like an empty one?
Because there is not a single person in it.what has teeth but never eats?
Comb.A stick in its side a stone in its belly.
Riddle me that & I'll give you a penny?
Haw.Riddle me, riddle me, randy ho.
My father gave me seed to sow.
The seed was black & the ground was white
Riddle me that & I'll give you a pipe?
Ink & paper.Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
" " got a great fall
All the King's horses & all the king's men
Wouldn't put H. Dumpty together again.
An Egg.As round as an apple, as deep as a cup
King George & his soldiers couldn't put it up?
The moon in a well.How many jaggers in an acre of whins?
One and all the rest.Although I have neither legs nor feet
I'm only useful when I go.
I have no tongue, but yet I tell
What many hundreds want to know?
Watch.What goes round & round the floor with a harrow after it?
A hen & chickens