Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard
a nursery rhyme about an old woman trying to feed her dog. Many people in Britain know the first verse:
Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone;
But when she got there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

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