There Was a Crooked Man
"There Was a Crooked Man" is an English nursery rhyme
“There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
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