Traditional Nursery Rhymes — The Man In The Moon Came Down Too Soon

[Traditional] The man in the moon came down too soon To inquire the way to Norridge; The man in the South, he burnt his mouth With eating cold plum porridge. [The Nursery Rhyme Book] THE man in the moon, Came tumbling down, And ask'd his way to Norwich, He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With supping cold pease-porridge. [The Real Mother Goose (1916)] The Man in the Moon came tumbling down, And asked the way to Norwich; He went by the south, and burnt his mouth With eating cold pease porridge. [The Little Mother Goose (1912)] The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked the way to Norwich. He went by the South, And he burnt his mouth, With eating cold pease porridge. [Holton-Curry Readers, Volume 2 (1914)] The Man in the Moon as he sails the sky, Is a very remarkable skipper; But he made a mistake when he tried to take A drink of milk from the Dipper. He dipped it into the Milky Way, And slowly and carefully filled it; The Big Bear growled, and the Little Bear howled, And scared him so that he spilled it!