There was a little woman, as I've been told,
Who was not very young, nor not very old,
Now this little woman her living got,
By selling codlins, hot, hot, hot!
A little old woman,
her living she got by selling hot codlins,
hot, hot, hot.
And this little old woman,
who codlins sold, tho' her codlins were hot,
she felt herself cold.
So to keep herself warm,
she thought it no sin
to fetch for herself a quartern of ........