Table of Contents: All Bedtime Stories
Molly Perfect
Based on the Nursery Rhyme Lavender's Blue
Listen to the Bedtime Story Molly Perfect, based around our arrangement of the Nursery Rhyme Lavender's Blue. Here you can listen to excerpts of all stories (narrated by Peter Bradbury). You can read along with every story online on our website or you can download all story texts and soundtracks individually (MP3 + PDF). In addition, all 20 stories are available together as an illustrated eBook with audio included (our full package download).
All Bedtime Stories (based on Nursery Rhymes)
Good Night Story based on Lavender's Blue
(Story 12 of 20)
Lavender's Blue
Molly Perfect
Have you ever thought what it would be like to be a King or a Queen?
Song:
Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly
lavender’s green
When you are King, dilly dilly
I shall be Queen
Who told you so, dilly dilly
who told you so?
’Twas my own heart, dilly dilly
that told me so
Call up your friends, dilly, dilly
set them to work
Some to the plough, dilly dilly
some to the fork
Some to the hay, dilly dilly
some to thresh corn
Whilst you and I, dilly dilly
keep ourselves warm
Have you ever thought what it would be like to be a King or a Queen?
Well, Jack Know-it-all did. In fact he dreamt about being a King all the time. He thought that he was the kind of person who would make a perfect King. He certainly knew how to tell people what to do. He liked wearing the finest clothes and he liked spending money. He thought he was a grand fellow and that you had to be someone important to talk to him - don’t you know?
If you weren’t someone special Jack stuck his nose in the air and walked past you.
Now Jack had a sweetheart; Molly Perfect and she wanted to be a Queen. She thought that she would make a fine Queen because she was kind, she liked to meet people, she was very wise, and everyone came to her for advice. She liked to help everyone no matter who they were, or whether they were working in the fields or the kitchen or the gardens. Molly was happy to do anything as long as it helped other people. Wherever she went everyone treated her as their friend.
All music taken from
The Nursery Rhyme Collection
Volumes 1 - 8
Now Jack came to notice that people loved to talk to Molly and to listen to what she had to say … and that everyone loved her.
Jack was so miserable. He had a lot of money, and many fine clothes but no one liked him. HE WAS IMPORTANT but no one came to see HIM for advice and he didn’t have many friends. He only knew people who always agreed with what he said, but secretly they made fun of him and giggled when he walked past.
Who do you think would make the best King or Queen? Jack asked Molly what he should do if he wanted to be King and this is what she sang:
Song:
Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly
lavender’s green
When you are King, dilly dilly
I shall be Queen
Who told you so, dilly dilly
who told you so?
’Twas my own heart, dilly dilly
that told me so
Lavender’s blue, lavender’s green
When you are King, I shall be Queen
Who told you so, who told you so?
It was my own heart, that told me so
Call up your friends, set them to work
Some to the plough, some to the fork
Some to the hay, some to thresh corn
Whilst you and I keep ourselves warm
Lavender’s blue, lavender’s green
When you are King, I shall be Queen
I shall be Queen
Sweet dreams, sleep tight. See you in the morning.
© 2015, written by Trevor Dobson
