Simple Simon ( nursery rhyme ) - wikipedia Simple Simon ( nursery rhyme ) This article is about the nursery rhyme. For other uses, see Simple Simon ( disambiguation ). `` Simple Simon '' William Wallace Denslow 's illustrations for Simple Simon, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose Nursery rhyme Published 1764 `` Simple Simon '' is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19777. Contents 1 Lyrics 2 Origins 3 In popular culture 4 Notes 5 External links Lyrics The rhyme is as follows ; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair ; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Says the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny ; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale ; All the water he had got, Was in his mother 's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle ; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle. He went for water in a sieve But soon it all fell through And now poor Simple Simon Bids you all adieu. Origins Simple Simon and the pie man, according to Denslow The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764. The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly appearing in an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad, Simple Simon 's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery 's Cruelty, from about 1685. Another possible inspiration was Simon Edy, a beggar in the St Giles area in the 18th century. In popular culture Laurel and Hardy `` played '', respectively, Simple Simon and the pieman in Walt Disney 's animated short, Mother Goose Goes Hollywood. Simple Simon was played by Charley Rogers in Babes in Toyland ( 1934 film ). Animation studio Comicolor produced an animated short based on the rhyme in 1935 titled Simple Simon. The short focuses mostly on an expanded version of Simon 's encounter with the Pie Man and his visit to the fair, and also adds a pet goose to the cast. The short was directed by animator Ub Iwerks. Notes ^ Jump up to : I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ( Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997 ), pp. 333 - 4. Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0i-SdMOV4g Jump up ^ Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford ( 1880 ), Old and New London : Westminster and the western suburbs Volume 3 of Old and New London : A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Old and New London, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, p. 207 External links A page containing the full text of the rhyme Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_Simon_(nursery_rhyme)&oldid=811069154 '' Categories : Roud Folk Song Index songs Year of song unknown Chapbooks English nursery rhymes Talk Contents About Wikipedia 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 19 November 2017, at 09 : 46. About Wikipedia

Question: who did simple simon met going to the fair
Answer: pieman