Georgie Porgie (Nursery Rhyme)

Summary


Georgie Porgie is a short nursery rhyme that captures a familiar childhood scene in just four playful lines. Georgie, a mischievous boy with a taste for pudding and pie, makes the girls cry with his stolen kisses — but the moment they come out to play, he turns tail and runs. The rhyme's bouncy rhythm and cheeky humour have kept young readers reciting it for generations, making it a staple of early childhood verse.


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Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the girls came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.


Credits

Ririro is the in-house editorial team behind a growing collection of free nursery rhymes, short stories, and poems available to read online at Ririro.com. Georgie Porgie is one of the most widely recognised English nursery rhymes, believed to date back to at least the 19th century, and is presented here in its traditional four-line form.