My Mother call'd me
Good boy,
And bid me pull out more,
I put my Finger
In my Ear,
And pull'd out fourscore.

The English chronicler John Aubrey (1627-97) claimed this nursery rhyme was a cleaned-up version of "an old filthy Rhythme used by base people."

The second verse was most probably added by a seventeenth-century play, Love without Interest, or The Man too hard for the Master.