Peter Peter pumpkin eater - wikipedia Peter Peter pumpkin eater `` Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater '' William Wallace Denslow 's illustrations for Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose Nursery rhyme Published c. 1825 `` Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater '' is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497. Lyrics One of Peter 's wives, according to Denslow Common modern versions include : Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but could n't keep her ; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and did n't love her ; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well. Origins The first surviving version of the rhyme was published in Infant Institutes, part the first : or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c., in London around 1797. It also appears in Mother Goose 's Quarto : or Melodies Complete, printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. A verse collected from Aberdeen, Scotland and published in 1868 had the words : Peter, my neeper, Had a wife, And he couidna ' keep her, He pat her i ' the wa ', And lat a ' the mice eat her. This verse is also considered to be an older version of the rhyme Eeper Weeper. Notes ^ Jump up to : I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ( Oxford University Press, 2nd edn., 1997 ), p. 410. Jump up ^ I. Opie and P. Opie, Children 's games with things : marbles, fivestones, throwing and catching, gambling, hopscotch, chucking and pitching, ball - bouncing, skipping, tops and tipcat ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997 ), p. 180. Children 's literature portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Peter_Pumpkin_Eater&oldid=814331385 '' Categories : Roud Folk Song Index songs American nursery rhymes Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 8 December 2017, at 04 : 55. About Wikipedia

Question: where did peter peter pumpkin eater come from
Answer: English language nursery rhyme