The Truth About Mother Goose (song)

The Truth About Mother Goose is the song from the 1957 Disney animated short of the same name. It is often sung by a trio of jesters at the beginning of the short before looping into the "Little Jack Horner" verse. It is sung again at the end of the short at the end of the "London Bridge" sequence.
==Lyrics==
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What's the truth about Mother Goose?
Let's clear up the mystery
Her nursery rhymes from olden times
Are really part of history
What's the truth about Mother Goose?
The rhymes that children learn today
Let's read the signs between the lines
Conduct a thorough expose
We'll find within the stages as we go behind the scene
Famous people, famous places, and what the verses really mean
What's the truth about Mother Goose?
Turn these pages and you'll see
We'll get the truth, the facts forsooth
Solve this age-old mystery!
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("London Bridge" verse)
Jesters: London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady
Shake a quake, old London Bridge
Have a ball 'til the arches fall
Jump the jive, old London Bridge
My fair lady
("The Truth About Mother Goose" verse)
And that's the truth about Mother Goose
Humpty Dumpty: The whole truth?
Moon: The absolute historical truth?
Jesters: Well... As far as we know...
That's the truth about Mother Goose
Now you solved the mystery
That's all we know, that's all the show
We'll close our book of history!
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==Trivia==
*When the "Truth About Mother Goose" song was featured in the Wonderful World of Color episode of the same name, the second and third verses were omitted at the opening of the episode and instead cuts straight to the scene where the jesters encounter an illustration of a scene from "Hey Diddle Diddle" depicting the cow jumping over the Moon and thus, shortening the song to the fourth verse.
Category:Opening songs
Category:Group songs
Category:Title songs
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