Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue
a boy in a traditional nursery rhyme. The full poem is:
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haycock fast asleep!

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