Childhood Ditty/Poem

[fourteen85]

Does anyone know the rest of the words to a poem that my Dad used to recite when I was a small child? it starts off with
When I stay with granny
she gives me jobs to do it ends up with
But watering the garden is what I like the best
let me do that granny and you can do the rest

Anyone heard this please?

[mallyh]

i've googled for ages and nothing ,could he have made it up ?

[jennyjoan]

My mother made up poems too

[mallyh]

i made up silly poems etc for my children and my grandchildren xx

[Etch]

Most likely the poem in Enid Blyton's 'Big Bedtime Book' quoted here:
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6611&start=15

When I stay with Granny
She gives me jobs to do;
I weed her little garden,
And feed her pigeons too.

I take the puppy walking,
I sometimes pick the peas;
I help to gather apples
Fallen from the trees.

But watering the garden
Is what I like the best.
PLEASE let me do that, Granny,
And you can do the rest!

[ladybirder]

What a lovely poem, made me smile.

[mallyh]

well done on finding that ,i googled for ages and nothing came up x

[Etch]

mallyh - when I googled ["when i stay with" "she gives me jobs to do"] there were only 2 hits, one of which was this thread! Putting the quotes (") round phrases when searching is important because then the results only include cases where the words occur as given.

[fourteen85]

Etch, brilliant, thanks very much