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 Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns;
 Nine bakers' baskets, with hot cross buns;
 Nine brown elephants standing in a row;
 Nine new velocipedes, good ones to go;
 Nine knickerbocker suits, with buttons all complete;
 Nine pairs of skates with straps for the feet;
 Nine clever conjurors eating hot coals;
 Nine sturdy mountaineers leaping on their poles;
 Nine little drummer-boys beating on their drums;
 Nine fat aldermen sitting on their thumbs;
 Nine new knockers to our front door;
 Nine new neighbours that I never saw before;
 Nine times running I dreamt it all plain;
 With bread and cheese for supper I could dream it all again!


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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