HIT: Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

[Beth Lunsford <perryluns@YAHOO.COM>]

This is what I found:
 FOUR DATES
     by Unknown

     Subject(s): Children's Poetry; Nursery Rhymes



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WILLIAM the Conqueror, ten sixty-six,
Played on the Saxons oft-cruel tricks.

COLUMBUS sailed the ocean blue,
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two.

THE Spanish Armada met its fate,
In fifteen hundred and eighty-eight.

IN sixteen hundred and sixty-six,
London burnt like rotten sticks.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Lunsford [mailto:perryluns@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:26 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: GEN; Elem - "Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue"


What is the whole text of this rhyme? thanks!  Answer me directly
please! We have searched every book here!

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City Park School (Grades 5 & 6)
Dalton, GA
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