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Ding Dong Bell

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"**Ding Dong Bell**" or "**Ding Dong Dell**" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 12853.

**Lyrics**

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The most common modern version is:**Origins**
**The verse printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia, Musicks Miscellanie (1609) as a canon for four voices Play**

The earliest recorded reference to the rhyme is from John Lant, the organist of Winchester Cathedral in 1580, who recorded the following rhyme:

It was printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia, Musicks Miscellanie in 1609, as a canon for four voices.[2]

The phrase 'Ding, dong, bell' also appears in these passages of Shakespeare's plays:

The Tempest, Act I, Scene II:

The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene II:

The earliest version to resemble the modern one is from Mother Goose's Melody published in London around 1765.[1] The additional lines that include (arguably) the more acceptable ending for children with the survival of the cat are in James Orchard Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes of England, where the cat is pulled out by "Dog with long snout".[3]

Several names are used for the malevolent Johnny Green, including Tommy O' Linne (1797) and Tommy Quin (c. 1840).[1] Iona and Peter Opie suggested that it may have had its origins in Tom a lin or Tom o' Lin, the protagonist of another nursery rhyme.[1]**William Stonard's composition**
**There is also a version composed as a four-part round by William Stonard (1585-1630) to the following text:**Reformed versions

**Illustration of the rhyme from an issue of The Illustrated London News (1905)**

The most common modern version is arguably already a moderation of the theme of the original rhyme. The fear that children might be affected by the violence of the rhyme and specifically that children might be tempted to put cats in wells, led to several attempts to reform the rhyme.[1]In his New Rhymes for Old (1949) Geoffrey Hall published the following alternative:

A modern version replaces the word "pussy" with "kitty".**References**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 149.
2. T. Ravenscroft, Selections from the works of Thomas RavenscroftRoxburghe Club, 1822.
It's Raining, It's Pouring

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"**It's Raining, It's Pouring**" is an English languagenursery rhyme and children's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814.

**Lyrics**

It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man was snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head.
And couldn't get up in the morning.
**Origins and interpretation**
**The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912.[1] The melody most often associated with it is the same as "A Tisket, A Tasket", which is in the public domain. The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress.[2] It was noted in 1939 in New York by Charles Ives (1874–1954) and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff.[3]**

It has been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning"). However, it has also been suggested that, in regards to the first verse at least, that the rhyme is an interpretation of an accidental death ("didn't get up in the morning"; indicating that no attempt or ability to get up made).[4]**References**

1. Anon, The Little Mother Goose (1912, Dodd, Mead & Company, 3rd edn., 1918), p. 169.
2. "Audio Recordings It's raining, it's pouring", Library of Congress, retrieved 16 June 2015.
3. C. W. Henderson, The Charles Ives Tunebook (Indiana University Press, 2008), p. 141; Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of copyright entries (Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 1944), p. 1362.
4. A. H. Kaye, "Essential Neurosurgery" 3rd Ed., (Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 57
I Had a Little Nut Tree

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'**I Had a Little Nut Tree'** is an English languagenursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 3749.

**Lyrics**

The most common modern version is:**Origins and meaning**
**The first recorded instance of the rhyme is in Newest Christmas Box, printed in London in 1797. James Orchard Halliwell suggested that it was much older and commemorated Juana of Castile who visited the court of Henry VII in 1506, but did not provide any additional evidence to support the theory.[1] In the absence of earlier attestations of or references to the song, or any internal evidence by which it could be dated, it is likely to remain a matter for speculation. However it could refer to Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon and Henry's problems in producing suitable offspring.**Additional verse

**Occasionally an extra verse is added:**Parody

**It was parodied by Roald Dahl in his poetry book Rhyme Stew (1989).**Notes

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 330-1.
A Wise Old Owl

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"**A Wise Old Owl**" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme "There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle."

**Lyrics**

This version was first published in Punch, April 10, 1875, and ran as follows:

One version was published upon bookmarks during the mid-1930s, and goes as follows:**History**
**The rhyme refers to the traditional image of owls as the symbol of wisdom. It was recorded as early as 1875 and is apparently older than that.[2] It was quoted by John D. Rockefeller in 1915[1] and is frequently misattributed to Edward Hersey Richards and William R. Cubbage.[3][4][5]**

During World War II, the United States army used the rhyme on a poster with the tweaked ending, "Soldier.... be like that old bird!" with the caption "Silence means security."[6]**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 403.
6. "World War II Poster: Wise Old Owl Sat in an Oak". About, Inc. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
Jack Be Nimble

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"**Jack Be Nimble**" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13902.

**Lyrics**

The most common version of the rhyme is:

Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jump over
The candlestick.[1]
**Origins and meaning**
**Jack is a dog, in Denslow's version**

The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century.[1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame.[1]**In other media**
**A variation of this rhyme is featured in the song "American Pie", by Don McLean in 1971, with a play on the title of the Rolling Stones song, "Jumpin' Jack Flash":**

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick,
'Cause fire's the devil's only friend.
It is also a line in Lindsey Buckingham's song "Holiday Road", featured in National Lampoon's Vacation:

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Take a ride on the West Coast kick.
Holiday road.
It is used in Welcome To The Void by the psychedelic rock band Morgenon their album Morgen in 1969:

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candlestick,
Ouch, said Jack as he touched the lighted wick,
My God, you know that fire burns.
It is used in "My Medicine" by Snoop Doog:

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jacked up the spoon on the candlestick.
It also features in the song "Limbo Rock," by Chubby Checker:

Jack be limbo, Jack be quick.
Jack go under limbo stick.
The group Set It Off also uses it in his song Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

Jack, be nimble, Jack be quick
Jill's a little \* and her alibis are dirty tricks
The video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion contains a quest called "Boots of Springheel Jak" in which the player must retrieve a pair of boots with the same name. The owner of said boots is, in keeping with the popular image, a vampire by the name of "Jakben, Earl of Imbel". The quest and boots are a reference to the mythical Spring-heeled Jack, whereas the character is a reference to both Spring-heeled Jack and "Jack Be Nimble".**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 226–7.
Girls and Boys Come Out To Play

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'**Girls and Boys Come Out to Play'** or '**Boys and Girls Come Out to Play'** is a nursery rhyme that has existed since at least 1708. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 5452.

**Lyrics**

The most common versions of the rhyme are very similar to that collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century:

Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And come with your playfellows into the street.
Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A halfpenny roll will serve us all.
You find milk, and I'll find flour,
And we'll have a pudding in half an hour.[1]
Other versions often put boys before girls in the opening line.[2]

Here are the melody for the first two lines.

**History**

The verse may date back to the time when children were expected to work during the daylight hours, and play was reserved for late in the evening. The first two lines at least appeared in dance books (1708, 1719, 1728), satires (1709, 1725), and a political broadside (1711). It appeared in the earliest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book published in London around 1744. The 1744 version included the first six lines.[3]**Notes**

1. James Orchard Halliwell, The nursery rhymes of England (London, 1846), p. 206. (at books.google.com)
2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 99-100.
3. William S. Baring-Gould and Ceil Baring-Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose, p. 35.
Did You Ever See a Lassie?

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"Did You Ever See a Lassie"[1] Play

"Ach! due lieber Augustin".[2] Play

**"Did You Ever See a Lassie?"** is a folk song, nursery rhyme, and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 5040.

**Lyrics**

Modern versions of the lyrics include:

Did you ever see a lassie,
A lassie, a lassie?
Did you ever see a lassie,
Go this way and that?
Go this way and that way,
Go this way and that way.
Did you ever see a lassie,
Go this way and that?
Did you ever see a laddie,
A laddie, a laddie?
Did you ever see a laddie,
Go this way and that?
Go this way and that way,
Go this way and that way.
Did you ever see a laddie,
Go this way and that?
**Origins**
**The use of the terms "lassie" and "laddie" mean that this song is often attributed to possible origins in Scotland (by various forms of media; see "references" section), but it was first collected in the United States in the last decade of the nineteenth century and was not found in Great Britainuntil the mid-twentieth century. However, it can be surmised that the words to the song may have come from Scottish immigrants or Scottish-Americans because of the aforementioned terms.[3]**

Along with "The More We Get Together", it is generally sung to the same tune as "Oh du lieber Augustin", a song written in Germany or Vienna in the late seventeenth century.[3]

It was first published in 1909, in Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft.[4]**As a game**
**The song is often accompanied by a circle singing game. Players form a circle and dance around one player. When they reach the end of the verse they stop, the single in the middle performs an action (such as Highland dancing), which everyone then imitates, before starting the verse again, often changing the single player to a boy, or a boy can join the center player - thus creating an extra verse in the song ("Did you ever see some children...").[5]**References in popular culture and children's media

**The song is featured in the 1963 motion picture Ladybug, Ladybug. In the movie, children sing the song as part of a game while walking home from school during a nuclear bomb attack drill.**

The song, as sung by children, was used in a 1990 commercial for Maidenform, and played over a succession of pictures of women in uncomfortable-looking clothing, was followed by the tag-line, "Isn't it nice to live in a time when women aren't being pushed around so much anymore?"**References**

1. Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell (1922). Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium, p.261-262. The Macmillan Company.
2. Copland, Aaron & Slatkin, Leonard (2011). What to Listen for in Music,. ISBN 978-0-451-53176-6.
3. J. J. Fuld, The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Dover, 5th edn., 2000), p. 399.
5. A. S. Fraserae, Ye min' langsyne?: A pot-pourri of games, rhymes, and ploys of Scottish childhood (London: Routledge, 1975), p. 23.
Five Little Ducks

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**Five Little Ducks** is a nursery rhyme[1] and counting-out game. The rhyme also has an associated tune and finger play.[2]

**Lyrics and music**

Like all folk songs, the exact wording varies. A common variant is:

Five little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," And only four little ducks came back. Four little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," And only three little ducks came back. Three little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," And only two little ducks came back. Two little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," And only one little duck came back. One little duck went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," But no little ducks came swimming back. Mother duck went out swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," And all five little ducks came swimming back.

**Actions**

Five little ducks went swimming one day, (Hold up five fingers) Over the hills and far away. (Wave hand as if going up and down a hill) Mother duck said, "quack quack quack quack," (Make opening and closing motion with hand, as if a beak) And only four little ducks came back. (Hold up four fingers)

Repeat actions, using the correct number of fingers as the numbers count down.[3][4]**Translations**
'***German** There is a translation into German as 'Fünf kleine Enten'.*

**Spanish** There is a translation into Spanish as 'Cinco patitos'.

**Armenian** There is a translation into Western Armenian under copyright by Karenn Presti in My First Armenian Songbook, 2017.**See also**

* List of playground songs
* 5 Little Ducks, picture book by Denise Fleming

**References**

4. "Five Little Ducks Went Out One Day". King County Library System. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
Bye, baby Bunting

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'**Bye, baby Bunting'** is a popular English-languagenursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11018. "Bye, baby Bunting" is popular lullaby, used especially in schools in England and US.

**Lyrics and Melody**

The most common modern version is:

Bye, baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[1]
When matched to the melody:

**Origins**

The expression bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'.[1] A version of the rhyme was published in 1731 in England.[2] A version in Songs for the Nursery 1805 had the longer lyrics:

Bye, baby Bunting,
Father's gone a-hunting,
Mother's gone a-milking,
Sister's gone a-silking,
Brother's gone to buy a skin
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[1]
**In popular culture**

* The rhyme was illustrated by the British artist, Randolph Caldecott(1846–86).
* The dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxleycontains the adapted reference 'Bye baby Banting, soon you'll need decanting'.
* In "Further Tales of the City" (1982) by Armistead Maupin, Jim Jonessings 'Bye, Baby Bunting' to DeDe's half-Chinese twins, Edgar and Anna. The song is a major leitmotif in both the book and the tv adaptation of 2001.
* A mysterious man summoned during an incantation gone awry in the urban fantasy novel The Magicians (2009) by Lev Grossman recites the rhyme shortly before vanishing again.
* "Each Peach, Pear, Plum" by Janet & Allan Ahlberg includes Baby Bunting as one of the characters "I spy".
* In "The Good, The Bad and the Queen" project, Damon Albarn sings "Bye, baby bunting" in "The Bunting Song".
* A variation of the song appeared frequently in the Dark Tower books by Stephen King.
* It was featured on The Walking Dead. The song was arranged by Bear McCreary and performed by Raya Yarbrough.[3]
* It was featured in the book "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark.
* It was featured in the title of the 1925 film Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
* It was featured in the title of the 1969 film Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
* It was featured in Phantom 2040 in the episode "Ghost in the machine".
* It is also featured in the independent Canadian horror classic Black Christmas (1974), as sung by the killer living in the attic of an all-girl sorority house.
* In Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre episode Rumpelstiltskin the queen played by Duvall is singing the song while rocking her child.

**Notes**

**Baby Bunting**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 63.
2. https://books.google.ca/books?id=40QdAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150
3. http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/the-walking-dead/the-walking-dead-made-to-suffer/
Rub-a-dub-dub

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**"Rub-A-Dub-Dub"** is an English language nursery rhyme first published at the end of the 18th century in volume two of Hook's Christmas Box[1] under the title "Dub a dub dub" rather than "Rub a dub dub". It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3101.

**Lyrics**

This rhyme exists in many variations. Among those current today is:

Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker,
And all of them out to sea.
**Origins and meaning**
**The earliest versions of this rhyme published differ significantly in their wording. Dating back to the 14th century,[2] the original rhyme makes reference to maids in a "tub" – a fairground attraction similar to a modern peep show.[3] The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies – the maids. The nonsense "Rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk," albeit of a more lascivious variety. The nursery rhyme is a form of teaching such associations in folklore: for individuals raised with such social codes, the phrase "Rub-a-dub-dub" alone could stand in for gossip or innuendo without communicating all of the details.**

One early recorded version in Christmas Box, published in London in 1798, has wording similar to that in Mother Goose's Quarto or Melodies Complete, published in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. The latter ran:

In the original version as it appeared both in England and in the USA (Boston) the song was talking about three maids instead of three men. Later research, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951), suggests that the lyrics are illustrating a scene of three respectable townsfolk "watching a dubious sideshow at a local fair".[4]

By around 1830 the reference to maids was being removed from the versions printed in nursery books. In 1842 James Orchard Halliwellcollected the following version:**In popular culture**
**There are several variants of the following joke:**

A pilot returning from a mission could not locate his aircraft carrier and in addition failed to establish secure communication. So he circled around the formation and radioed: "Rub a dub dub, where is my tub?" And received: "Hey Diddle Diddle! Right here in the middle!"
Some memoirs claim it was a real incident.[5]**References**

1. Schubertiade Music: volume two of Hook's Christmas Box
2. Chris Roberts, Librarian at Lambeth College, London; interviewed on NPR in 2005
4. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 447.
5. The Escort Carriers In Action: The Story, In Pictures, Of The Escort Carrier Force, US Pacific Fleet, 1945 (public domain archive)
Eeper Weeper

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**"Eeper Weeper"** or **"Heeper Peeper"** is a popular English nursery rhyme and skipping song that tells the story of a chimney sweep who kills his second wife and hides her body up a chimney. The rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497.[1]

**Lyrics**

Eeper Weeper, chimney sweeper,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her.
Had another, didn't love her,
Up the chimney he did shove her.[2]
**Origins**
**Iona and Peter Opie noted that the rhyme had been used in this form from at least the first decade of the twentieth century.[2] 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 may be an older version of "Eeper Neeper" and of "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater".[3]**Notes**

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.
3. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.
This Little Piggy

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**"This Little Piggy"**or **"This Little Pig"**is an English language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 19297.

**Lyrics**

Children playing This Little Pig.[1]

The most common modern version is:

**Finger play**
**"... This little piggy had roast beef..."**

The rhyme is usually counted out on an infant or toddler's toes, each line corresponding to a different toe, usually starting with the big toe and ending with the little toe. A foot tickle is usually added during the "Wee...all the way home" section of the last line. The rhyme can also be seen as a counting rhyme, although the number of each toe (from one for the big toe to five for the little toe) is never stated.**Origins**
**In 1728, the first line of the rhyme appeared in a medley called "The Nurse's Song". The first known full version was recorded in The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-Book, published in London about 1760.[3]**

The full rhyme continued to appear, with slight variations, in many late 18th and early 19th century collections. Until the mid-20th century, the lines referred to "little pigs".[3]**See also**

* Children's literature portal

**References**

**This Little Pig**

3. Opie, I.; Opie, P. (1951). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997 ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 349–50.
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

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**"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"** is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19621.

**Lyrics**

Modern versions of the rhyme include:

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Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away did run;
The pig was eat
And Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying [or "roaring", or "howling", in some versions]
Down the street.[1]
The 'pig' mentioned in the song is almost certainly not a live animal but rather a kind of pastry, often made with an apple filling, smaller than a pie.[1]

Another version of the rhyme is:

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he run.
Tom run here,
Tom run there,
Tom run through the village square.
This rhyme is often conflated with a separate and longer rhyme:

Tom, he was a piper's son,
He learnt to play when he was young,
And all the tune that he could play
Was 'over the hills and far away';
Over the hills and a great way off,
The wind shall blow my top-knot off.
Tom with his pipe made such a noise,
That he pleased both the girls and boys,
They all stopped to hear him play,
'Over the hills and far away'.
Tom with his pipe did play with such skill
That those who heard him could never keep still;
As soon as he played they began for to dance,
Even the pigs on their hind legs would after him prance.
As Dolly was milking her cow one day,
Tom took his pipe and began to play;
So Dolly and the cow danced 'The Cheshire Round',
Till the pail was broken and the milk ran on the ground.
He met old Dame Trot with a basket of eggs,
He used his pipe and she used her legs;
She danced about till the eggs were all broke,
She began for to fret, but he laughed at the joke.
Tom saw a cross fellow was beating an ass,
Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass;
He took out his pipe and he played them a tune,
And the poor donkey's load was lightened full soon.[1]
**Origins**
**Both rhymes were first printed separately in a Tom the Piper's Son, a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England.[1] The origins of the shorter and better known rhyme are unknown.**

The second, longer rhyme was an adaptation of an existing verse which was current in England around the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The following verse, known as "The Distracted Jockey's Lamentations", may have been written for (but not included in) Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698):

Jockey was a Piper's Son,
And fell in love when he was young;
But all the Tunes that he could play,
Was, o'er the Hills, and far away,
And 'Tis o'er the Hills, and far away,
'Tis o'er the Hills, and far away,
'Tis o'er the Hills, and far away,
The Wind has blown my Plad away.[1]
This verse seems to have been adapted for a recruiting song designed to gain volunteers for the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns about 1705, with the title "The Recruiting Officer; or The Merry Volunteers", better today known as "Over the Hills and Far Away", in which the hero is called Tom.[1]**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 408-11.

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Little Boy Blue

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"**Little Boy Blue**" is a popular English-language nursery rhyme, often used in popular culture. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318.

**Lyrics**

A common version of the rhyme is:**Origins and meaning**
**The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book (c. 1744), but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says:**

It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion.[1]**Adaptations**
**Boy Blue, until issue 81, was one of the main characters of the long-running comic book series Fables.**References

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 98–9.
Fleur de Rose

Fleur de Rose était une guerrière du Clan des Lilas

## Description

Fleur de Rose était une femelle écaille, aux yeux ambrés. Elle avait une cicatrice sur la patte arrière, souvenir d'une bataille contre des chiens.

## Caractère

Fleur de Rose était assez froide et distance mais elle avait beaucoup de sentiments qu'elle gardait en elle. Elle aimait beaucoup son fils même s'il ne le sait pas.

## Histoire

Fleur de Rose était une apprentie qui n'avait pas beaucoup d'amis car elle était souvent désagréable. Toute sa famille avait péri lors d'une épidémie et le Clan des Lilas l’avait alors recueillie en la trouvant à l’âge de 5 lunes. Personne ne le sait mais cette épreuve l'a traumatisée. Souvent, elle a voulu les rejoindre. Elle n'a pas montré ses sentiments car elle ne voulait pas causer des problèmes. C'est pour ça qu'elle a toujours été distante avec son fils, elle ne voulait pas qu'il s'attache à elle puis qu'il la voit mourir. C'est ce qui arriva, désormais Fleur de Rose regrette d'avoir fait ce choix et aurait souhaitée profiter de sa vie pour être proche de son fils.

## Famille

Compagnon : Feuille d'Automne

Fils : Griffe de Lichen
Wind the Bobbin Up

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**"Wind the Bobbin Up"** is an English language children's nursery rhyme and singing game.

**Lyrics**

Among modern lyrics is:

Wind the bobbin up,
Wind the bobbin up,
Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap.
Wind it back again,
Wind it back again,
Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap,
Point to the ceiling,
Point to the floor,
Point to the window,
Point to the door,
Clap your hands together, 1, 2, 3,
And place them gently upon your knee.[1]
**Origins**
**Iona and Peter Opie traced this rhyme back to Netherlands in the 1890s. When they were collecting games in the 1960s and 1970s the version they encountered was:**

Wind the bobbin up,
Wind the bobbin up,
Pull, pull,
Tug, tug, tug.[2]
**The game**
**In the 1970s the game involved two players winding fists around each other. At "Pull, Pull" they pushed their fists away from each other and when "Tug, Tug" was reached they pulled their elbows back.[2] It has now become a much more sedate action game, often with small children carrying out the actions in the lyrics.[1]**See also

* List of nursery rhymes

**Notes**

1. B. Melling, Creative Activities for the Early Years: Thematic Art and Music Activities (Brilliant Publications, 2005), p. 64.
2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Singing Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 379-82.
I'm a Little Teapot

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**"I'm a Little Teapot"** is an American song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a whistling tea kettle. The song was originally written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939.[1] By 1941, a Newsweek article referred to the song as "the next inane novelty song to sweep the country".[2]

**Creation**

Clarence Kelley and his wife ran a dance school for children, which taught the "Waltz Clog", a popular and easy-to-learn tap dance routine. This routine, however, proved too difficult for the younger students to master. To solve this problem, George Sanders wrote The Teapot Song, which required minimal skill and encouraged natural pantomime. Both the song and its accompanying dance, the "Teapot Tip", became enormously popular in America and overseas.[3]**See also**

* American tea culture
* Tea for Two (song), an earlier North American song referring to tea, from 1925
* List of nursery rhymes

**References**

2. Newsweek (1941), Vol. 18, p. 10.
3. Clark, Garth (October 2001). The Artful Teapot. Watson-Guptill. ISBN 0-8230-0319-1.
Five Little Monkeys

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"Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree" variant in both English and Spanish.

**"Five Little Monkeys"** is an English language folk song and fingerplay. It is usually accompanied by a sequence of gestures that mimic the words of the song. Each successive verse sequentially counts down from the starting number.[1][2][3]

**Lyrics**

A commonly used version uses these words and gestures::

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed, One fell down and bumped his head, Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
Three little monkeys jumping on the bed, One fell down and bumped his head, Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
Two little monkeys jumping on the bed, One fell down and bumped his head, Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
One little monkey jumping on the bed, He/She fell down and bumped his head, Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
No little monkeys jumping on the bed, None fell down and bumped their head, Papa called the doctor and the doctor said, "Put those monkeys right to bed!"
Hold up four fingers; Rest elbow on other hand, bounce arm up and down Hold up one finger and roll your hand down towards the floor and tap your fist to your head Put your pinky finger to your cheek and thumb to your ear (like a telephone) Wag your index finger nine times
Hold up three fingers; Rest elbow on other hand, bounce arm up and down Hold up one finger and roll your hand down towards the floor and tap your fist to your head Put your pinky finger to your cheek and thumb to your ear (like a telephone) Wag your index finger nine times
Hold up two fingers; Rest elbow on other hand, bounce arm up and down Hold up one finger and roll your hand down towards the floor and tap your fist to your head Put your pinky finger to your cheek and thumb to your ear (like a telephone) Wag your index finger nine times
Hold up one finger; Rest elbow on other hand, bounce arm up and down Hold up one finger and roll your hand down towards the floor and tap your fist to your head Put your pinky finger to your cheek and thumb to your ear (like a telephone) Wag your index finger seven times
Hold up zero fingers; Rest elbow on other hand, bounce arm up and down Hold up zero fingers and roll your hand down towards the floor and tap your fist to your head Put your pinky finger to your cheek and thumb to your ear {like a telephone} Wag your index finger seven times

An additional part is:

An alternate version sometimes seen is:**Origin**
**there is no known origin of the song, due to it being a modern nursery rhyme. But the song has similar lyrics and tune that came from the first verse from the folksong "Short'nin Bread"**Usage In Media

* Five Little Monkeys appears in Just Dance Kids 2, and in the streamer based Just Dance Unlimited for Just Dance 2017 and Just Dance 2018

**References**
Round and Round the Garden

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**"Round and Round the Garden"** is an English language nursery rhyme typically accompanied by a fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19235.

**Lyrics**

The most common modern form of the poem is:

Round and round the garden
Went a teddy bear.
One step, two step,
Three step, bear!
Round and round the mulberry bush,
Like a little hare,
One Step, two step,
Tickly under there!
[1]**Origins**
**The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. Since Teddy Bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is unlikely to be any older than that in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie speculated that it might be a version of an older rhyme, collected 1945-9, 'Round about there, went a little hare', with the lyrics:**

Round about there
Sat a little hare
The bow-wows came and chased him
Right up there![1]
An Irish version goes:

Round and round the racecourse
Catch a little hare
One step, two steps
Thickly under there!

A South African version goes:

Round and round the mulberry bush
Like a teddy bear
One step, two step
Tickly under there!
An English version goes:

Round and round the garden
Like a teddy bear
One step, two step
tickle under there
**Accompanying actions**
**The nursery rhyme is accompanied by various actions, by the adult on the child or the child on the adult. The child/adult first lightly strokes his or her index finger in slow circles around the child/adult's upturned palm, then with each "step", walks their index and middle finger up the arm, firstly to the elbow and then to the shoulder. Finally after a short pause before the "tickle", they launch a (not unexpected) tickle under the arm.**Notes

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 184. and 233.

**External links**

* Communication, language and literacy: Round and round the gardenfrom The National Strategies TeachFind website
Little Robin Redbreast

An illustration for the rhyme from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (1833)

**‘Little Robin Redbreast’** is an English languagenursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 20612.[1]

**Lyrics**

This rhyme is one of the most varied English nursery rhymes, probably because of its crude early version. Common modern versions include:

Little Robin Redbreast
Came to visit me;
This is what he whistled,
Thank you for my tea.[2]
and:

Little Robin Redbreast
Sat upon a tree,
Up went the Pussy-Cat,
And down went he;
Down came Pussy-Cat,
Away Robin ran,
Says little Robin Redbreast—
Catch me if you can.
Little Robin Redbreast jumped upon a wall,
Pussy-Cat jumped after him, and almost got a fall.
Little Robin chirped and sung, and what did pussy say?
Pussy-Cat said Mew, mew mew,—and Robin jumped away.[3]
**Origins**
**The earliest versions of this rhyme reveal a more basic humour. The earliest recorded is from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (c. 1744), which has the lyric:**

Little Robin Red breast,
Sitting on a pole,
Nidde, Noddle, Went his head.
And poop[4] went his Hole.[2]
By the late eighteenth century the last line was being rendered 'And wag went his tail,' and other variations were used in nineteenth-century children's books, in one of the clearest cases of bowdlerisation in nursery rhymes.[2]**Fingerplay**
**The rhyme has been used as a fingerplay. A version from 1920 included instructions with the lyrics:**

Little Robin Redbreast
Sat upon a rail,
(Right hand extended in shape of a bird is poised on extended forefinger of left hand.)
Niddle noddle went his head,
And waggle went his tail.
(Little finger of right hand waggles from side to side.)[5]
**Notes**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 371-2.
3. Anon, The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (Munroe and Francis: Boston MA, 1833), p. 14.
4. the meaning of this word subsequently changed, towards the start of the 20th century
5. W. B. Forbush, H. T. Wade, W. J. Baltzell, R. Johnson, and D. E. Wheeler, ed., Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I(New York, NY: University Society, 1920), p. 10.
Taffy was a Welshman

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**"Taffy was a Welshman"** is an English languagenursery rhyme which was popular between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19237.[1]

**Lyrics**

Versions of this rhyme vary. Some common versions are:**Origins and history**
**The term "Taffy" may be a merging of the common Welsh name "Dafydd" (Welsh pronunciation: ) and the Welsh river "Taff" on which Cardiff is built, and seems to have been in use by the mid-eighteenth century.[3] The rhyme may be related to one published in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, printed in London around 1744, which had the lyrics:**

The earliest record we have of the better known rhyme is from Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, printed in London about 1780, which had one verse:

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't home; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone.[2]

Similar versions were printed in collections in the late eighteenth century, however, in Songs for the Nursery printed in 1805, the first signs of violence were evident, ending with:

In the 1840s James Orchard Halliwell collected a two verse version that followed this with:

This version seems to have been particularly popular in the English counties that bordered Wales, where it was sung on Saint David's Day (1 March) complete with leek-wearing effigies of Welshmen.[2] The image of thieving Welshmen seems to have begun to die down by the mid-twentieth century, although the insulting rhyme was still sometimes used along with the name "Taffy" for any Welshman.**Notes**

2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 400–1.
3. M. Stephens, The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 569.
4. J. O. Halliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England (London, 1846), p. 19.
Yankee Doodle

"**Yankee Doodle**" is a well-known American song, the early versions of which date to before the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut. Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 4501. The melody is thought to be much older than both the lyrics and the subject, going back to folk songs of Medieval Europe.

## Lyrics

Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

Yankee Doodle keep it up,

Yankee Doodle dandy,

Mind the music and the step,

And with the girls be handy.
Aiken Drum

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"**Aiken Drum**" is a popular Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, which probably has its origins in a Jacobite song about the Battle of Sheriffmuir (1715). It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2571.

**Lyrics**

Lyrics from 1899

Modern versions of the lyrics include:

Other versions of the song include the lyrics:**Origins**
**The rhyme was first printed by James Hogg in Jacobite Reliques in 1820, as a Jacobite song about the Battle of Sheriffmuir (1715):**

Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Antiquary (1816) refers to Aiken Drum in a story told by an old beggar about the origins of what has been perceived by the protagonist as a Roman fort. The beggar tells him that it was actually built by him and others for "auld Aiken Drum's bridal" and that one of the masons cut the shape of a ladle into the stone as a joke on the bridegroom. The reference suggests that the rhyme, and particularly the chorus, was well enough known in the early nineteenth century for the joke to be understood.[2]**The Brownie of Blednoch**
**Aiken Drum is also the name given by the Scottish poet William Nicholsonto the brownie in his poem "The Brownie of Blednoch" (1825). Although this has led some folklorists to speculate that the song may derive from older fairy legends, there is no evidence of the name being used for a brownie prior to Nicholson.[3][4]**Performances

**The Scottish storytelling group, Macastory, perform this song for children in an interactive way by allowing the children to decide the foods of which Aiken Drum is made. One such version recorded by The Singing Kettle is included on their CD Singalong Songs from Scotland, produced in 2003 for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.[5]**

Popular Armenian-Canadian children's singer Raffi played a version of the song, called "Aikendrum," on his album Singable Songs for the Very Young(1976).[6] Raffi's version of the song replaces the various foods with one's that would be more familiar to an American audience: spaghetti for Aikendrum's hair, meatballs for his eyes, cheese for his nose, and pizza for his mouth.**See also**

**Aiken Drum**

**References**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 52–4.
2. Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary (1816) Archived 2006-09-08 at the Wayback Machine., accessed 25/04/09.
3. Briggs, Katharine (1976). An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Pantheon Books. p. 2. ISBN 0394409183.
4. "Scottish Country Dance – The Brownie of Blednoch"
5. Cd liner notes: The Singing Kettle — Singalong Songs from Scotland, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2003.
6. R. Reid, Children's Jukebox: A Subject Guide to Musical Recordings and Programming Ideas for Songsters Ages One to Twelve, (ALA Editions, 1995), p. 98.
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell

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**I do not like thee, Doctor Fell** is a nursery rhyme, said to have been written by satirical English poet Tom Brown in 1680.[1][2]

**Origin and basis**

The anecdote associated with the origin of the rhyme is that when Brown was a student at the Christ Church, Oxford, he was caught doing mischief. The dean of Christ Church, John Fell (1625–1686), who later went on to become the Bishop of Oxford, expelled Brown; but offered to take him back if he passed a test. If Brown could extemporaneously translate the thirty-second epigram of Martial (a well known Roman epigramist), his expulsion would be cancelled. The epigram in Latin is as follows:

Brown made the impromptu English translation which became the verse:**Recognition**
**The nursery rhyme "I do not like thee, Doctor Fell" was not included in Mother Goose collections until 1926, following the rhyme's inclusion in "Less-Familiar Nursery Rhymes" by Robert Graves of I, Claudius fame.**References

3. Opie, I. & Opie, P. (1997) [1951]. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-19-860088-7.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

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**"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"** is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284.

**Lyrics**
A common version (from The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes)

One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
Three, four,
Shut the front door;
Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
Seven, eight,
Lay them straight:
Nine, ten,
A big fat hen;
Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids in waiting
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate is empty.[1]
**Other versions**
**Some sources give differing lyrics.[2]**Origins and meaning

**The rhyme is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Songs for the Nursery, published in London in 1805. This version differed beyond the number twelve, with the lyrics:**

Thirteen, fourteen, draw the curtain,
Fifteen sixteen, the maid's in the kitchen,
Seventeen, eighteen, she's in waiting,
Nineteen, twenty, my stomach's empty.[1]
A version published five years later in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810) had the following different lines:

Three, four, Lay down lower ...
Eleven twelve, Who will delve...
Fifteen, sixteen, Maids a-kissing...
Nineteen, twenty, My Belly's empty.[1]
According to Henry Bolton, collector of counting rhymes in the 1880s, the rhyme was used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780.[1]**Notes**

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.
Kebab rpzepis

* piersi z kurczaka

3 szt.

* Fix Kebab z sosem czosnkowym Knorr

1 opak.

* jogurt naturalny

2 łyżki

* biała kapusta poszatkowana

1 szklanka

* czerwona kapusta poszatkowana

1 szklanka

* cebula biała

1 szt.

* pomidor

1 szt.

* placki tortilli

4 szt.

* Chili z Indii Knorr

1 łyżeczka

* olej

50 ml

* Ketchup Hellmann's Łagodny

4 łyżki

* Majonez Hellmann's Babuni

2 łyżki
Graine de Fève

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## Description

**Graine de Fève** avait un pelage noir un peu épais et une queue très courte. Ses yeux étaient verts clairs. C'était un guerrier musclé et toujours plein d'énergie.

## Caractère

**Graine de Fève** était calme et généreux mais il était souvent à l'écart des autres. Il détestait que l'on sache ce qu'il ressentait. Il était très protecteur avec les autres, surtout depuis la mort de sa mère. Il avait toujours été très proche de son père et l'a toujours admiré.

## Histoire

**Graine de Fève** aurait bien aimé avec un frère ou sœur lorsqu'il était chaton car il était le seul chaton du Clan. Heureusement, ses parents étaient souvent avec lui. Il allait souvent voir les anciens et les apprentis. Quand il devint apprenti sous le nom de Nuage de Fève, il s'entendit très bien avec son mentor, Lueur de Graine. Peu après son baptême de guerrier, sa mère mourut, il se mit encore plus à l'écart des autres mais il fut beaucoup soutenu par le Clan, en particulier par son père et son ancienne mentor. Quelques lunes plus tard, Lueur de Graine devint sa compagne et elle le soutenu de nouveau lorsque son père mourut à son tour. Il meurt lui-même de nombreuses lunes plus tard à l’âge de 123 lunes.

## Famille

Grand-mère : Lumière de Persil

Grand-père : Patte de Bouleau

Mère : Fleur de Cactus

Père : Pelage de Bambou

Compagne : Lueur de Graine