Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue is an English nursery rhyme first printed in 1744, but its origins may date back further.
==Adaptations==
* Mother Goose Stories adapted the rhyme into the episode "Boy Blue"
==References==
* The Winter 1984 issue of Muppet Magazine features Muppet "Mother Goose," a literary salute to Mother Goose, including a take on the rhyme with "Little Blue Zoot."
* In a Sesame Street sketch, Little Boy Blue visits Mother Goose to get a poem written about him. Here he lives up to his name and is a Fat Blue Anything Muppet. 
*Sesame Street Episode 3154 involves Ruthie trying to sell Little Boy Blue's horn to Prairie Dawn, but she doesn't want the animals that the horn attracts. Herry Monster blows the horn while browsing at Finders Keepers, bringing sheep and cows into the store, driving Herry away. Little Boy Blue then trades in his clarinet, which attracts cats and dogs for his old horn. At the end of the episode, Biff and Sully announce Little Boy Blue's horn as a sponsor and blow the horn at the end of the show, causing yet another stampede.
* When Mary's little lamb leaves for other nursery rhymes in Sesame Street Episode 3326, he tries out with Little Boy Blue, a hep musician type.
* Abby Cadabby mistakes Cookie Monster for Little Boy Blue in the book My First Trip to the Farm.
* Abby Mix & Match Nursery Rhymes features Little Boy Blue as one of the rhymes.
* Big Bird teaches Little Boy Blue about cooperation in The Mother Goose Mix-Up.
* Baby Gonzo takes on the role of Little Boy Blue in the Big Book of Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales.
* Muppet Babies PVC figures from Applause also feature Baby Gonzo as Little Boy Blue.
* Big Bird's Mother Goose features Cookie Monster as little boy.
* Grover dresses as Little Boy Blue in the storybook Pumpkin Patch Party.
* In a Sesame Street puzzle, Grover once again takes the place of Little Boy Blue, this time called "Small Monster Blue." The image was later used in the 2008 book Storybook ABCs.
* In the book Sleep Tight!, Oscar reads his favorite book Mother Grouch Rhymes. In the Grouch version, "Little Boy Grouch" takes a mud bath and eats anchovy stew.
* In Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes, Baby Kermit looks in on Baby Gonzo, asleep in a haybale with two sheep.
* In the book A Visit to the Sesame Street Library, Grover tells Big Bird that Mrs. Libby let him play the part of Little Boy Blue in a play at the library.
Image:Eyelids-cookie.jpg|Cookie Monster as Little Boy Blue in Big Bird's Mother Goose.
Image:Applause1989BabyGonzoHaystack.jpg|Little Boy Blue figure from Applause.
Image:Smallmonsterblue.jpg|Grover frame tray puzzle
MB_photo_Little_Boy_Blue.jpg|Little Boy Blue Muppet Babies
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Category:Nursery Rhymes
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