The first recording of Mary Had a Little Lamb was done after 1877 .
The earliest recording ( 1877 ) was retrieved by 3D imaging equipment in 2012.Blues musicians Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan both recorded the song : Guy composing his own bluesy version of the song for his album A Man and the Blues in 1968 and Vaughan covering Guy 's version in his 1983 debut album , Texas Flood , with both also infusing the first four lines of the nursery rhyme , `` A-Tisket , A-Tasket '' , into the song .
Mary Had a Little Lamb