1.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked,
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where is the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
2. Bill had a billboard and also a board bill.
But the board bill bored Bill so
That he sold the billboard to pay the board bill.
3. Betty Batter bought some butter.
“But,” she said, “my butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter.
If I buy some better butter,
It will make my batter better.”
So she bought some better butter
And it made her batter better.
4. When a twister twisting would twist a twist,
For twisting a twist three twists he will twist,
But if one of the twists untwists from the twist,
The twist untwisting untwists the twist.
5. Never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you,
It only doubles trouble
And troubles others too.
6. If a doctor is doctoring a doctor,
Does the doctor doing the doctoring
Have to doctor the doctor the wayъ
The doctor being doctored wants to be doctored
Or does the doctor doctor the way he usually doctors?
7. A tutor who tooted a flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor
“Is it harder to toot orъ
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
8. A canner, exceedingly canny,
One morning remarked to his granny,
“A canner can can anything that he can.
But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
9. We all work together with a wiggle and a giggle,
We all work together with a giggle and a grin,
With a wiggle and a giggle and a google and a woogle,
A jigger and a jagger and a giggle and a grin.
10. William is worried about the woodworm in the woodwork of his wardrobe.
11. William always wears a very warm woolen vest in winter.
Victor, however, will never wear woolen underwear, even in the Wild West.
12. Walter works at waxworks and wax won’t wash off without warm water.
13. Why do you cry, Willie?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willie? Why, Willie?
Why, Willie? Why?
Whenever we meet,
There’s a tear in your eye.
Why do you cry, Willie?
Why, Willie? Why?
14. Whether the weather be fine,
Whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather
Whatever the weather
Whether we like it or not.
15. When the weather is wet,
We must not fret,
When the weather is cold,
We must not scold.
When the weather is warm,
We must not storm,
But be thankful together,
Whatever the weather.
16. We wonder, whether the wether will weather the weather,
Or whether the weather the wether will kill?
17. Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim.
Swan swam back again,
Well swum, swan!
18. A thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a-thatching.
Did a thatcher of Thatchwood go to Thatchet a-thatching?
If a thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a-thatching,
Where’s the thatching the thatcher of Thatchwood has thatched?
19. I thought a thought,
But the thought I thought
Wasn’t the thought I thought.
I thought if the thought I thought
Had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn’t have thought so much.
20. Theyssian Thyssel is a successful thistle sifter.
He sifts sieves full of three thousand thistles
Through the thick of his thumb.
If those thistle sifters who sift sieves of thistles
Think of Theyssian Thyssel the successful thistle sifter,
They will be successful at sifting thistle sieves.
