What Are Little Boys Made Of? - The Nursery Rhyme Collections
The Nursery Rhymes Collections 1-4 contain a total of 277 children's songs. Each double CD album showcases the highest quality children's music ever recorded with a total playing time in excess of 10 hours!
What Are Little Boys Made Of? (Audio Sample and Lyrics)
(Come on lad, what are you made of?
Muscles!)
(Snips and snails*, and puppy dogs' tails
Sugar and spice and all things nice
Sighs and cheers, and crocodile tears
Ribbons and laces, and sweet pretty faces)
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
"Snips and snails*,
and puppy dogs' tails
That's what little boys are made of!"
What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
"Sugar and spice and all things nice
That's what little girls are made of!"
What are young men made of?
What are young men made of?
Sighs and cheers,
and crocodile tears
And that are young men made of.
What are young women made of?
What are young women made of?
Ribbons and laces,
and sweet pretty faces,
And that are young women made of.
(Sighs and cheers, and crocodile tears
Ribbons and laces, and sweet pretty faces
Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails
Sugar and spice and all things nice)
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
"Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails
That's what little boys are made of!"
Words & Music: Traditional
Arrangement: Ian J Watts
This song was released on The Nursery Rhyme Collection 2
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Background notes
A nursery rhyme playing with all clichés about boys and girls. Knowing that the situation is a bit different in real life. Because in real life - obviously - girls are made of shoes and hand bags.