The rhyme is as follows;
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Simple Simon met a pieman,
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Going to the fair;
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Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
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Let me taste your ware.
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Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
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Show me first your penny;
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Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
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Indeed I have not any.
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Simple Simon went a-fishing,
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For to catch a whale;
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All the water he had got,
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Was in his mother's pail.
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Simple Simon went to look
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If plums grew on a thistle;
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He pricked his fingers very much,
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Which made poor Simon whistle.
