Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, And they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them. Now little Bo-peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still a-fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left their tails behind them. ♪ It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray Into a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails side by side, All hung on a tree to dry. She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And ran over the hill and dale oh, And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack to each sheep its tail oh. ♪ Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, And they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them.