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As I was going by Charing Cross

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"**As I was going by Charing Cross**" (sometimes referred to as "**As I was going to Charing Cross**"), is an English languagenursery rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded in the 1840s, but it may have older origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of King Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may allude to his death or be a puritan satire on royalist reactions to his execution. It was not recorded in its modern form until the mid-nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20564.

**Lyrics**

Modern versions include:

The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 20564.[2]**Origin**
**Wenceslas Hollar's engraving of the statue**

The rhyme is thought to refer to the equestrian statue of Charles I (r. 1625–49), which was erected after the Restoration in 1660 and was moved in 1675 to the site of the old Charing Cross in central London.[1]The tarnished bronze statue is largely dark in colour, but the "black" may refer to the king's hair colour.[1]

The last line may refer to the reaction of the crowd when he was beheaded, or it may be a puritan satire on royalistreactions to the event.[1] The rhyme may also have been produced out of a combination of existing couplets. A traditional London street cry was:

or

A note of a ballad in a seventeenth-century manuscript at Oxford[4]contains the lines:

The first part was printed as a children's rhyme in a variation of the more famous "Ride a Cock Horse" in Pretty Tales, published in 1808, with the lyrics:

The modern version, which may combine elements of this rhyme with a reference to the execution of Charles I, was first collected and printed by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s.[1][5]**See also**

* Street cries

**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 114-15.
3. W. H. Pyne, The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: Ackerman, 1827), p. 271.
4. MS Ashmole, 36, fol 113.
5. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, The Nursery Rhymes of England (London: John Russell Smith, 1846), p. 7.
Roses Are Red

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**"Roses Are Red"**can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798.[1] It is most commonly used as a love poem.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you.**Origins**
**The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenserfrom his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6):[2]**

It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When Titan faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew,
She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.
A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's Daypoem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes:

The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou are my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.[3]
Victor Hugo was likely familiar with Spenser, but may not have known the English nursery rhyme when, in 1862, he published the novel Les Misérables. Hugo was a poet as well as a novelist, and within the text of the novel are many songs. One sung by the character Fantine contains this refrain, in the 1862 English translation:

We will buy very pretty things
A-walking through the faubourgs.
Violets are blue, roses are red,
Violets are blue, I love my loves.
The last two lines in the original French are:

Les bleuets sont bleus, les roses sont roses,
Les bleuets sont bleus, j'aime mes amours.
(Les Misérables, Fantine, Book Seven, Chapter Six)[4]**Folklore**
**Numerous satirical versions have long circulated in children's lore.[5]Among them:**

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Onions stink.
And so do you.[6]
Country music singer Roger Miller parodied the poem in a verse of his 1964 hit "Dang Me":

Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Sugar is sweet,
And so is maple surple.
The Marx Brothers' film Horse Feathers has Chico Marx describing the symptoms of cirrhosis thus:

Cirrhosis are red,
so violets are blue,
so sugar is sweet,
so so are you.[7]
Benny Hill version:

Roses are yellow
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish[8]
**Notes**

2. The Faerie Queene, Cant. VI.
3. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 375.
4. Les misérables, Tome I by Victor Hugo at Project Gutenberg
5. S. J. Bronner, American Children’s Folklore (August House: 1988), p. 84.
6. "Jill Still Playing Jacks And Hopscotch Endures", retrieved 17 September 2009.
7. Horse feathers
8. Lawrence Dorfman, Snark! The Herald Angels Sing: Sarcasm, Bitterness and the Holiday Season, Skyhorse Publishing, (2013),
Hickory Dikory Dock

# Hickory Dickory Dock

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"**Hickory Dickory Dock**" or "**Hickety Dickety Dock**" is a popular English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 6489.

**Lyrics and music**

Hickety Dickety Dock, illustrated by Denslow

The most common modern version is:

Other variants include "down the mouse ran"[2] or "down the mouse run"[3] or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down".**Score**
'***Origins and meaning***

The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744, which uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'.[1] The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.[1]

The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme.[1] Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera (8), Devera (9) and Dick (10).[1]

The rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral. The clock has a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice.[4]**See also**

* Yan Tan Tethera
* Chiastic structure
* List of nursery rhymes
* Hickory, Dickory, and Doc
* The Last Colony

**Notes**

**Hickory Dickory Dock**

2. The American Mercury, Volume 77, p. 105
4. Cathedral Cats. Richard Surman. HarperCollins. 2004
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

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**"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 couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well.[1]

**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.[1] It also appears in Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete, printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825.[1] 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.[2]**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 410.
2. 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.
The Wheels on the Bus

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**"The Wheels on the Bus"** is an American folk songwritten by Verna Hills and published in 1939.[1] It is a popular children's song in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Canada, and is often sung by children on bus trips to keep themselves amused. It has a very repetitive rhythm, making the song easy for a large number of people to sing, in a manner similar to the song "99 Bottles of Beer". It is based on fellow traditional British song "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". The song is also sometimes sung to the tune of "Buffalo Gals", as in the version done by Raffi.

The song is now very popular for children in several other languages.

Normally followed by "The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish" (with action), "the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep" and "the people on the bus go up and down" (with action). Some versions substitute "bounce up and down" for "go up and down", and some modern commercial recordings of the song in children's toys simplify the tune by copying notes 7 through 9 onto notes 13 through 15.**Mad Donna's cover version**
**In 2002, American Madonna impersonator "Mad Donna" (Michelle Chappel) had a hit with the wheels on the bus song, featuring a version of Madonna's "Ray of Light" over which the classic children's song was sung. The single reached No. 17 in the United Kingdom and also made the charts elsewhere in Europe.[2]**References

1. American Childhood, vol. 25, 1939, p. 56
2. "Mad Donna (3) - The Wheels On The Bus". Discogs.
Polly Put the Kettle On

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**"Polly Put the Kettle On"** is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7899.

**Lyrics**

Advertisement for the 1916 film, based on a screen story by Grace Helen Bailey inspired by the song.

Common modern versions include:

Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We'll all have tea.
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
They've all gone away.[1]
**Origins**
**A song with the title: "Molly Put the Kettle On or Jenny's Baubie" was published by Joseph Dale in London in 1803.[2] It was also printed, with "Polly" instead of "Molly" in Dublin about 1790–1810 and in New York around 1803–07.[3] The nursery rhyme is mentioned in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge (1841), which is the first record of the lyrics in their modern form.[1]**

In middle-class families in the mid-eighteenth century "Sukey" was equivalent to "Susan" and Polly was a pet-form of Mary.[1]

The tune associated with this rhyme "Jenny's Baubie" is known to have existed since the 1770s.[1] The melody is vaguely similar to "Oh du lieber Augustin", which was published in Mainz in 1788–89.[3]**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd ed., 1997), pp. 353–54.
2. D. M. Kassler, W. Hawes, D. W. Krummel and A. Tyson, eds, Music entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710–1818: from lists prepared for William Hawes (Aldershot: Ashgate 2004), p. 514.
3. James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (1966, 5th ed., Dover, 2000), pp. 399–400.
Little Tommy Tucker

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**"Little Tommy Tucker"** is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19618.[1]

**Lyrics**

Common modern versions include:

Little Tom Tucker
Sings for his supper.
What shall we give him?
White bread and butter.
How shall he cut it
Without a knife?
How will he be married
Without a wife?[2]
**Origins**
**The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (c. 1744), which has only four lines.[2] The full version was produced in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765).[2] There are references to various parts of the rhyme in earlier works.[2] To 'sing for one's supper' was a proverbial phrase by the seventeenth century. An excellent new Medley (c. 1620) included the line 'Tom would eat meat but wants a knife'.[2]**

Various Thomas Tuckers have been identified, including a Bachelor of Arts who was appointed 'Prince or Lorde of the Revells' at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1607, and a 'Tom Tuck' who appears in one of John Herrick's epigrams in Witt's Recreations (1640).[2]**In popular culture**

* Was played by Russell Coles in Babes in Toyland
* Tommy Tucker is the name of a variety of rose.[3]
* Tommy Tucker (squirrel), possibly named for Little Tommy Tucker

**Notes**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 416–7.
3. http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=17069 Rose: Little Tommy Tucker.

**External links**

* The full text of Little Tommy Tucker at Wikisource
* Media related to Little Tommy Tucker at Wikimedia Commons
Hot Cross Buns

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**Hot Cross Buns** is an English language nursery rhyme, Easter song, and street cry referring to the spiced English bun known as a hot cross bun, which is associated with the end of Lent and is eaten on Good Friday in various countries. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13029.

The most common modern version is:[1]

**Origins**
**The earliest record of the rhyme is in Christmas Box, published in London in 1798.[1] However, there are earlier references to the rhyme as a street cry in London, for example in the Poor Robin's Almanack for 1733, which noted:**References

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 197.
2. Charles Hindley, History of the Cries of London: Ancient and Modern (Cambridge University Press, 2011). p. 218.
This Old Man

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"**This Old Man**" is an English language children's song, counting and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550.

**Origins and history**

The origins of this song are obscure. The earliest extant record is a version noted in Anne Gilchrist's Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (1937), learnt from her Welsh nurse in the 1870s under the title "Jack Jintle" with the lyrics:[1]**Lyrics**
**A more familiar version goes like this:**Variations

**Nicholas Monsarrat, (born in 1910), in his autobiography 'Life is a Four Letter Word,' refers to the song as being 'a Liverpool song' adding that it was 'local and original' during his childhood in Liverpool. A similar version was included in Cecil Sharp and Sabine Baring-Gould's English Folk-Songs for Schools, published in 1906.[2] It was collected several times in England in the early 20th century with a variety of lyrics. In 1948 it was included by Pete Seeger and Ruth Crawford in their American Folk Songs for Children and recorded by Seeger in 1953. It received a boost in popularity when it was adapted for the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness(1958) by composer Malcolm Arnold as "The Children's Marching Song", which led to hit singles for Cyril Stapleton and Mitch Miller.[3]**

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs(1961)

The children's show Barney & Friends used the song "I Love You" as its closing song and was sung to the tune of "This Old Man." Lyrics: I love you. You love me. We're a happy family, With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you, Won't you say you love me too?

In the television series Columbo, the title character often whistled the music to this song, generally when he was happy and closing in on a suspect.

British musical comedy duo Flanders and Swann recorded a satirical version called "All Gall", about French President Charles de Gaulle, replacing the original's refrain with "Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune". A single with a rock version by Bobby Beato and Purple Reign charted in 1975.[4][5]**References**

1. A. G. Gilchrist, "Jack Jintle", Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 3 (2) (1937), pp. 124–5.
2. S. B. Gould and C. J. Sharp English Folk-Songs for Schools (London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1906) pp. 94–5.
3. N. Musiker and D. Adès, Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: a Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook (London: Greenwood, 1998), p. 248.
4. Frank W. Hoffmann - 1983 The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950-1981 Page 802 -"This Old Man (Purple Reign) "
5. Purple Reign - Bobby Beato
Needles and Pins (nursery rhymes)

# Needles and Pins (nursery rhyme)

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**"Needles and Pins"** is an English language proverband nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 20071.

**Lyrics**

Common modern versions include:

Needles and pins,
Needles and pins,
When a Man marries,
His Trouble begins.
**Origins**
**The rhyme dealing with potential marital difficulties was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1843 and since then has appeared largely unchanged in many collections of nursery rhymes.[1]**Notes

1. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, The Nursery Rhymes of England: Obtained Principally from Oral Tradition (London, 2nd edn., 1843), p. 122.
Little Miss Muffet

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"**Little Miss Muffet**" is a nursery rhyme, one of the most commonly printed in the mid-twentieth century.[1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605.

**Lyrics**
'***Origins and meaning***
**The rhyme first appeared in print in 1805, in a book titled Songs for the Nursery. Like many such rhymes, its origins are unclear. Some claim it was written by Dr Thomas Muffet (d.1604), an English physician and entomologist, regarding his stepdaughter Patience; others claim it refers to Mary, Queen of Scots (1543–87), who was said to have been frightened by religious reformer John Knox (1510–72).[3] The first explanation is speculative, and the latter is doubted by most literary scholars, who note that stories linking folk tales or songs to political events are often urban legends.[1] Several novels and films, including Along Came a Spider, take their titles from the poem's crucial line.**

* Little Miss Muffet in art
* The "Little Miss Muffet" scenario explained by Denslow
* 1940 WPA poster using "Little Miss Muffet" to promote reading among children.
* Little Miss Muffetby Sir John Everett Millais

**Alternative lyrics**
**There is an alternative set of lyrics which has been taught in some countries where whey is not a common foodstuff.[4] In the nineteenth century the rhyme existed in many alternative versions, including: 'Little Mary Ester, Sat upon a tester' (1812) and 'Little Miss Mopsey, Sat in the shopsey' (1842). These rhymes may be parodies of whichever is the original.[1]**See also

* Arachnophobia
* Itsy Bitsy Spider

**References**

2. Earlier versions mention ″little spider.″ See, e.g.: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles. L., George Routledge and Sons, 1877, p. 263

**External links**

Media related to Little Miss Muffet at Wikimedia Commons
Pussy Cat Pussy Cat

**"Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat"** is a popular English languagenursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 15094.[1]

**Lyrics and melody**

Common modern versions include:

Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you do there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.[2]
The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870).[3]For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you there'.

The poem was translated into Russian by a Soviet writer, translator and children's poet of Jewish origin, Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. His translation, however, does not preserve the original prosody and poetic metre, from which we can conclude that the writer was familiar only with the text version of the song.**Origins**
**The earliest record of the rhyme is publication in Songs for the Nursery, printed in London in 1805.[2] The Queen most often depicted in illustrations is Elizabeth I, but Caroline of Brunswick has also been suggested.[2]**References in popular culture

* In Sesame Street's Mother Goose Rhymes, Grundgetta takes the place of the cat, going to the dump and wanting to know who wants to know where she's been
* Ernie takes the place of the pussycat with Bert playing the mouse in The Sesame Street 1981 Mother Goose Calendar

**Notes**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 357.
3. J. J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0486414752, p. 502.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat

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"**Row, Row, Row Your Boat**" is an English languagenursery rhyme and a popular children's song. It can also be an "action" nursery rhyme, whose singers sit opposite one another and "row" forwards and backwards with joined hands. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236.

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs(1961). Crosby also used the song as part of a round with his family during his concert at the London Palladium in 1976. The performance was captured on the album Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium.**Lyrics**
**The most common modern version is often sung as a round for four voice parts (**

play ). A possible arrangement for SATB is as follows:

The text above is often sung multiple times in succession to allow for the different voices to interweave with each other, forming four-part harmony.
**Melody**
'***Origins***

It has been suggested that the song may have originally arisen out of American minstrelsy. The earliest printing of the song is from 1852, when the lyrics were published with similar lyrics to those used today, but with a very different tune. It was reprinted again two years later with the same lyrics and another tune. The modern tune was first recorded with the lyrics in 1881, mentioning Eliphalet Oram Lyte in The Franklin Square Song Collection but not making it clear whether he was the composer or adapter.[1]**Additional or alternative verses**
**People often add additional verses, a form of children's street culture, with the intent of either extending the song or (especially in the case of more irreverent versions) to make it funny, parody it, or substitute another sensibility for the perceived innocent one of the original. In Bean, Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) and Peter MacNicol (David Langley) also used this parody singing in the film.[2] Don Music, a muppet character in Sesame Street, changed the lyrics to feature a car instead of a boat.[3][4][5]**

Versions include:

And:**Notes and references**
Lucy Locket

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"**Lucy Locket**" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19536.[1]

**Lyrics**

Common modern versions include:

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.[2]
Another version

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Nothing in it, nothing in it,
But the binding round it.
**Tune**
**The song shares its tune with "Yankee Doodle" which emerged in North America in the mid-eighteenth century, but it is not clear which set of lyrics emerged first.[3]**Origins and meaning

**The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842, but there is evidence that it was popular in Britain and America at least in the early nineteenth century.[2] Various persons have been identified with Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. Halliwell suggested that they were "two celebrated courtesans of the time of Charles II", but no supportive evidence has been found.[2]**

The name Lucy Locket was used by John Gay in Beggar's Opera (1728), but may have already been proverbial.[2] Kitty Fisher may have been Catherine Marie Fischer (d. 1767) a British courtesan who was the subject of three unfinished portraits by Joshua Reynolds and a number of songs, including an air recorded in Thompson's Country Dances (1760).[4]**Use in popular culture**
**The rhyme was used as a plot device in the Brad Thor novel Hidden Order (2013), ISBN 978-1476717104. The name "Kitty Fisher was changed to "Sally Fisher".**

In the episode "Beefsquatch" of Bob's Burgers, when Gene is attempting to teach a classmate how to pop and lock, he "raps" the line "Lucy Lock-it lost her pop-it". [5]**Notes**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 279–80.
3. O. G. T. Sonneck, Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle" (Minerva, 2001), p. 116.
4. D. H. Fischer, Liberty and freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 217.
Nursery Rhymes Saga Kingdom

## Welcome to the Wiki

You know I renamed that? Because Saga is the last one lot of things now we named it Saga and Kingdom it's because Kingdom is United Kingdom what made it better than 100?

## Describe your topic

Hey! Remember, that's Finland, and I did this wallpaper because it's more like a quilt. Well, Saga is my Saga and Kingdom the most popular that I had that you wanted to see here!

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Douce Jonquille

## Description

Douce Jonquille est une femelle au long pelage doré. Elle a la queue et les pattes noires. Il y a des cicatrices sur sa queue et son poitrail et ses yeux sont ambrés.

## Caractère

Douce Jonquille est franche et loyale. Elle dit toujours ce qu'elle pense, même si ce n'est pas très gentil. Elle déteste mentir et déteste qu'on lui mente. On ne lui fait donc pas souvent confiance pour garder un secret. Malgré ses défauts, Douce Jonquille est aussi une mère très protectrice et peut faire preuve de douceur.

## Famille

Mère : Plume Douce

Père : Oreille de Sapin

Tantes : Cœur de Bleuet et Petite Cerise

Compagnon : Blizzard de Houx

Fils : Nuage de Sureau
The Muffin Man

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"**The Muffin Man**" is a traditional nursery rhyme or children's song of English origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7922.

**Lyrics**

The most widely known lyrics are as follows:**Origins and meaning**
**The rhyme was first recorded in a British manuscript circa 1820, that is preserved in the Bodleian Library with lyrics very similar to those used today:**

Sheet music for Harry King's setting of the song (1889)

Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered, such as muffins, which were delivered door-to-door by a muffin man. The "muffin" in question was the bread product known in the United States as English muffins, not the much sweeter cupcake-shaped American variety.[2] Drury Lane is a thoroughfare bordering Covent Garden in London.

The rhyme and game appear to have spread to other countries in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly the US and the Netherlands.[1] As with many traditional songs, there are regional variations in wording; for example, another popular English version substitutes "Dorset Lane" for Drury Lane,[1] while in the Dutch version (entitled *Zeg ken jij de mosselman), musselsare substituted for muffins, and Scheveningen for Drury Lane.[3]*

In Volume 5 of his contemporary account of the London Prize Ring, Boxiana, published in 1829, Pierce Egan writes of an attempted fix (or "cross") of a match scheduled for October 18, 1825, between Reuben Marten and Jonathan Bissel ("Young Gas"). Young Gas refused to take the bribe and one week later identified the person who offered him £200 to throw the fight as a "Mr. Smith, a muffin-baker in Gray's Inn Lane." Young Gas also identified the "gentlemen" who employed the muffin-baker to act as go between, but those gentlemen denied involvement claiming they did not have "the slightest knowledge of the muffin-man."**Game**
**Iona and Peter Opie observed that, although the rhyme had remained fairly consistent, the game associated with it has changed at least three times including: as a forfeit game, a guessing game, and a dancing ring.[1]**

London Cries: A Muffin Man by Paul Sandby (c. 1759)

In The Young Lady's Book (1888), Matilda Anne Mackarness described the game as:

Verses beyond those described in the book have been sung. For example, the song may be concluded, "We all know the Muffin Man ..."**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Singing Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 379-82.
2. K. F. Kiple, and K. C. Ornelas, The Cambridge World History of Food (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 1224.
4. Matilda Anne Mackarness The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits. (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1888), pp. 278–280.
Brise de Fougère

Brise de Fougère sans cicatrices

## Description

Brise de Fougère ressemble beaucoup à sa fille, Ombre de Lys. Mais elle a des poils plus longs et un pelage plus clair que celui de sa fille. Elle aussi a des yeux ambrés. Elle a une cicatrice près de l'oeil gauche et une petite sur le poitrail.

## Caractère

Brise de Fougère est très susceptible et se vexe à la moindre critique et déteste avoir tort. Elle n'est cependant pas rancunière. Elle préfère se battre plutôt que chasser mais adore courir dans les prairies.

## Histoire

Brise de Fougère est née dans le Clan des Lilas. Lorsqu'elle était apprentie, elle faisait souvent des bêtises, encore plus que quand elle était chaton. Un jour, elle est montée dans un arbre pour attraper un écureuil mais n'a pas réussis à redescendre ! Elle chassait seule et a donc du attendre un peu avant qu'une patrouille passe pas très loin. C'est peut-être pour ça que maintenant elle n'aime pas beaucoup chasser. Peu après, elle devint guerrière sous le nom de Brise de Fougère. Plus tard, elle commença à se rapprocher de Plume de Tournesol et eut deux filles avec lui. Mais, alors que ses filles étaient apprenties, il y eut un incendie sur le territoire du Clan des Lilas qui se propagea jusqu'au camp. Plume de Tournesol mourut dans l'incendie. Cependant, elle continua de servir son Clan car elle savait qu'elle ne pouvait rien y faire et que c'était la meilleure chose à faire. De nombreuses lunes plus tard, elle rejoignit les anciens.

## Famille

Compagnon : Plume de Tournesol

Filles : Ombre de Lys et Écho de Saule

Petite-fille : Vent de Trèfle

Petit-fils : Cœur de Bouleau
Cock a doodle doo

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"**Cock a doodle doo**" is a popular English languagenursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 17770.

**Lyrics**

The most common modern version is:**Origins**
**The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US) "crow".[1] The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London around 1765.[1] By the mid-nineteenth century, when it was collected by James Orchard Halliwell, it was very popular and three additional verses, perhaps more recent in origin, had been added:**In popular culture

* Herman Melville wrote a short story, perhaps a satire on other writers, with the title 'Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!' (1853).[2]
* Cock-a-Doodle Dandy is a 1949 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey.[3]
* Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux was the title of a 1966 short cartoon for The Inspector, in which Inspector Clouseau suspects chickens of stealing a diamond.[4]
* The title was used for an episode of Sex and the City (2000).[5]

In Oliver Stone's 1992 film JFK, the John Candy character uses this expression during his conversation with Kevin Costner's character.**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 128.
2. L. J. Budd and E. H. Cady, On Melville: The Best from American Literature (Duke University Press, 1988) p. 116.
3. M. Banham, The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 808.
4. Cock-a-Doodle Deux-Deux, IMDB, retrieved 11 April 2009.
5. Cock-a-Doodle-Do Sex and the City: Season 3, Episode 18: Cock-a-Doodle-Do, IMDB, retrieved 11 April 2009.
Aube de Sureau

## Description

Aube de Sureau est une grande femelle au pelage noir et doré. Elle a des yeux bleus clairs et plusieurs cicatrices sur le museau.

## Caractère

Aube de Sureau est toujours aimable et polie. Elle est discrète et n'aime pas être au centre de l'attention. Elle donner l'impression d'avoir peur de ses responsabilités mais elle veut juste réfléchir tranquillement avant de prendre une décision.

## Famille

Mère : Pluie d'Ismène

Père : Bois de Coquelicot

Sœurs : Rayure de Camomille et Rosée de Chêne

Frères : Braise de Mousse, Blizzard de Houx et Galet de Frêne

Nièces : Flamme d'Acacia et Ciel de Cerise

Neveux : Roche de Mimosa et Poil de Prune
Billy Boy

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**"Billy Boy"** is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.

**Origins and interpretations**

While the tone of the nursery rhyme is ironic and teasing, both the question and answer form[1] and the narrative of the song have been related to "Lord Randall", a murder ballad from the British Isles, in which the suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits.[2]

By contrast, Robin Fox uses the song to make a point about cooking and courtship, and observes that:**Recordings**

* Further variants have been recorded, that greatly extend the number of verses and tasks that the wife can perform. An extended version of the song in which the lover performs many tasks besides the cherry pie was collected by Alan Lomax and John Avery Lomax: it appears in American Ballads and Folk Songs. The Lomax version names the woman being courted Betsy Jane.[4]
* the Dale Sisters released a song of the same name in August 1960, billed as "Billy Boy, Billy Boy", on the B-side of their single, "The Kiss", on His Master's Voice but it shares none of the lyrics or the tune of the original (POP 781).[5]
* A version of the song by Jerry Lee Lewis was released on the 1975 album, Rare, Vol. 1.[6]

**In popular culture**
**A line from the song was adapted as the title for Henry Jaglom's 1983 film Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, which concerns a middle-aged New York Citymusician who, after being dumped by her husband, develops a relationship with a middle-aged divorced social worker. The song "Billy Boy" is also performed in the film.[7]**See also

* Children's literature portal

**References**

1. More type 4343: see Bruce P. Hayes, Margaret MacEachern, Quatrain Form in English Folk Verse
2. Fox, Dan (2003) "Billy Boy" in A Treasury of Children's Songs New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-8050-7445-7, ISBN 978-0-8050-7445-1
3. Fox, Robin: Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective. Social Issues Research Centre. p.11; see also Fox, Robin (1994): The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions. Transaction Publishers, ISBN 156000827X
7. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? trailer, YouTube
Sticks and Stones

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"**Sticks and Stones**" is an English languagechildren's rhyme. The rhyme persuades the child victim of name-calling to ignore the taunt, to refrain from physical retaliation, and to remain calm and good-living. The full rhyme is usually a variant of:**First appearance**
**Alexander William Kinglake in his EOTHEN (written 1830, published in London, J. Ollivier, 1844) used "golden sticks and stones".**

It is reported[1] to have appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where it is presented as an "old adage" in this form:

The phrase also appeared in 1872, where it is presented as advice in Tappy's Chicks: and Other Links Between Nature and Human Nature, by Mrs. George Cupples.[2] The version used in that work runs:

Also throughout the web there are different essays about why each statement is true or false.

This version was featured in The Who's 1981 song, "The Quiet One", in which the vocals were performed by bassist John Entwistle, where he mentioned this term from another source he picked up and sang this term twice where he changed "your" from the first set to "my" in the second set.

**Popular Culture**
**Several variations of the phrase have been referred to in popular culture, such as:**

* Rihanna's S&M song lyrics have the phrase "Sticks and stones may break my bones But chains and whips excite me"
* In the comedy movie Step Brothers, Will Ferrell's character says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but I'm gonna repeatedly kick you in the balls."
* The title of an episode (S03E13) of The Rockford Files was "Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You" (1977)[3]
* Talk show host Eric Bogosian explains the insults he hurls at his audience as, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words cause permanent damage". Talk Radio 1989[4]

**Sources**
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

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Tommy (or me), according to Denslow

**"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"**, **"Pat-a-cake"**, **"patty-cake"** or **"pattycake"** is one of the oldest and most widely known surviving English nursery rhymes. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 6486.[1]

**Verse**

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with "B"
And put it in the oven for Baby and me!
**Origins**
**The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698, where a nurse says to her charges:**

...and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven.

The next appearance is in Mother Goose's Melody, (c. 1765), in the form:

Patty Cake, Patty Cake,
Baker's Man;
That I will Master,
As fast as I can;
Pat it and prick it,
And mark it with a T,
And there will be enough for Tommy and me.[2]
Marking pastry or baked goods with an identifiable mark may stem from a time when households that did not own an oven of their own could have brought their items to a local baker or bake house, paying to have their items finished for a small fee. Marking the pastry would have been a way to ensure the return of the proper item. [3]**Tune**
**The earliest version set to music appears in 'A Christmas Box' by James Hook, published in 1796. [4]**Game

**A common style of playing pat-a-cake.**

The rhyme is often accompanied by hand-clapping between two people, a clapping game. It alternates between a normal individual clap with two-handed claps with the other person. The hands may be crossed as well. This allows for a possibly complex sequence of clapping that must be coordinated between the two. If told by a parent to a child, the "B" and "baby" in the last two lines are sometimes replaced by the child's first initial and first name.[2]**Tennis**
**A pat-a-cake serve is a serve in which the racket is not swung behind the head (as in a proper serve). It is often used by beginning players, or players who never had formal training. The term is considered pejorative.**See also

* List of nursery rhymes

**References**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 341–2. ISBN 9780198600886.
3. Horrible Histories:Gorgeous Georgians
4. Christmas Box by Mr Hook [1](page 13)
Little Arabella Miller

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"**Little Arabella Miller**" is a popular English nursery rhyme often sung in pre-schools. Most references to the song do not attribute a writer but Ann Eliott has been previously cited as a composer.[1][2] It is also an action song, sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".[3]

**Lyrics**

The rhyme has just one verse but there are several variants which focus on the description of the caterpillar (furry, fuzzy, woolly), and on the family members mentioned in the rhyme (mother, brother, grandmother, baby brother).

A version sung in England:

Other versions:**Actions**
**[3]**

Another variation on the action song:**Cultural references**
**"Little Arabella Miller" has been recorded by several artists including :**

* Amy Conley ("Grow Your Own Music)
* Sharon, Lois & Bram in two albums "Mainly Mother Goose" and "Name Games"
* Peter and Ellen Allard recorded it for their album "Sing It, Say It, Stamp It, Sway It!" which won 2002 Children's Music Web Award: Best Recording for Young Children, and was the 2002 winner of the Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award.

There is an English organic fashion label for kids named after the nursery rhyme character Arabella Miller which uses a caterpillar as its logo.[6][7]**References**

1. http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/2085/Bugs-bugs-bugs-Rhymes-Music.pdf.
2. http://www.abc.net.au/children/play/grownup/prognote/series158.htm
3. KIDiddles Song Lyrics - Arabella Miller
4. Page 172
5. Perry Public Library Archived 2008-06-06 at the Wayback Machine.
6. Arabella Miller debuts eczema-friendly organic kids' tees - News at SmartPlanet.com Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine.
7. Green Parenting Survey Highlights Some Unreasonable Choices : TreeHugger

**External links**

Rhyme spoken in English - [1]
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John

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**"Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"** is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19709.

**Lyrics**

The most commonly used modern version is:

Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John,
Went to bed with his trousers on;
One shoe off, and the other shoe on,
Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John.[1]
Alternate versions include:

Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John
Went to bed with his britches on.
One shoe off, and one shoe on;
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John.[2]
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John,
Went to bed with his stockings on;
One shoe off, and one shoe on,
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.[3]
**Origins**
**The rhyme is first recorded in The Newest Christmas Box published in London around 1797. It may be derived from 'Diddle, diddle, diddle Dumpling', a traditional street cry of hot dumpling sellers.[1]**In popular culture

**The rhyme was used in the refrain of the song "Nursery Rhyme," written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim,[4] from The Archies' 1969 album Jingle Jangle.[5][6]**References

1. (2nd ed. 1997)
2. Wright, The Original Mother Goose (1916), as quoted on mothergooseclub.com
3. Smith, The Little Mother Goose (1912), as quoted on mothergooseclub.com
4. The Archies - Jingle Jangle (1969), Old Melodies...Dream's Mirror
5. "Nursery Rhyme," The Archies (YouTube)
6. The Archies - Jingle Jangle (1969 Full Album) (HD Vinyl) (YouTube)

4. BBC 'Inside number 9' TV episode with the same name
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

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World War I poster of the United States

**Now I lay me down to sleep** is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.

**Text**

Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectatoron 8th March 1711. It says:

A later version printed in The New England Primer goes:**Other versions**
**It is sometimes combined with the "Black Paternoster", one version of which goes:**References

1. The New England Primer, 1750 ed., p. 28.
4. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), ISBN 0-19-860088-7, pp. 357–60.
Wee Willie Winkie

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**"Wee Willie Winkie"** is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841.[1][2][3] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.

**Lyrics**

A tirling pin from the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, a primitive form of door bell, it was scraped up and down to make a rattling sound that would announce a visitor's presence

The memorial to the author, William Miller, in Glasgow

The original text of 1841 in Scots, and a paraphrased version for English-language readers (from 1844) are below:

**Origins and meaning**
**The poem was written by William Miller (1810–72), first printed in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841 and re-printed in Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle published in 1873.[1][2][3][5] In Jacobite songs Willie Winkie referred to King William III of England, one example being "The Last Will and Testament of Willie winkie"[6] but it seems likely that Miller was simply using the name rather than writing a Jacobite satire.[5]**

Such was the popularity of Wee Willie Winkie that the character has become one of several bedtime entities such as the Sandman, Ole Lukøje of Scandinavia, Klaas Vaak of the Netherlands, Dormette of France[7] and Billy Winker in Lancashire.[8]**Notes**

5. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 424–5.
7. C. Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: an Encyclopedia of the Little People (ABC-CLIO, 1996), p. 231.
8. Briggs, Katharine (1976). An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Pantheon Books. pp. 24, 429. ISBN 0394409183.

**External links**

* Scottish Nursery Songs and other Poems by William Miller at Dennistoun online, includes Wee Willie Winkie
* Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle edited by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson, contains Willie Winkie and the autograph of Miller (1873)
Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)

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**"Simple Simon"** is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19777.

**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.[1]
He went for water in a sieve
But soon it all fell through
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu![2]
**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.[1] 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.[1] Another possible inspiration was Simon Edy, a beggar in the St Giles area in the 18th century.[3]**In popular culture**

* 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.
* UK 1970s childrens' programme Daisy Daisy featured a regular animated segment about Simple Simon who in each episode is bullied by antagonists The Meanies only to be rescued by the Pieman who defeats and humiliates the Meanies by throwing custard pies at them.
* The poem is briefly (and stutteringly) recited in the Merrie Melodiesanimated short I Love to Singa.
* Three Stooges: Moe and Shemp Howard performed a slapstick version of the poem's first two stanzas in the 1948 Stooges short Fiddler's Three, complete with humorously-mangled last line.[4]

**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0i-SdMOV4g
4. www.threestooges.net/transcripts/view/121

**External links**

* A page containing the full text of the rhyme