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"Hickety, Pickety" lyrics:
Hickety, pickety, my black hen!
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten,
Hickety, pickety, my black hen.

Additional versions:
Version 1

Hickety, pickety, my black hen!
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten,
Hickety, pickety, my black hen.

Source: The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs (1910)
Version 2

Hickety, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten,
Hickety, pickety, my black hen.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997)

Version 3

Higglepy, Piggleby, My black hen,
She lays eggs For gentlemen;
Sometimes nine, And sometimes ten,
Higglepy, Piggleby, My black hen!

Source: Kappes, Mother Goose's Melodies, or, Songs of the Nursery (1878)
Version 4

Mitt Mattie had a hen,
She laid eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten.

Source: Newell, Games and Songs of American Children (1883)