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The popularity of particular counting-out rhyme wordings has varied over the years. In 1969 Iona and Peter Opie found "One potato, two potato" to be "in constant use" both in the UK and the USA during the 20th century [6] but by 2010, although still very well known, Steve Roud found that it was no longer British children's first choice for counting out.
Singing games began to be recorded and studied seriously in the nineteenth century as part of the wider folklore movement. Joseph Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Robert Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826), James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849), and G. F. Northal's English Folk Rhymes ...
One Potato, Two Potato 'One Potato, Two Potatoes' Unknown Poor Mary 'Poor Jenny' or 'Poor Sally' England Star Light, Star Bright: United States Ten in the Bed 'There were ten in the Bed', '10 in the Bed', 'There were 10 in the bed' Unknown Origin unknown, there is a picture book dating to 1988 which uses similar lyrics. Ten Green Bottles
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The historian Henry Carrington Bolton suggested in his 1888 book Counting Out Rhymes of Children that the custom of counting out originated in the "superstitious practices of divination by lots." [1] Many such methods involve one person pointing at each participant in a circle of players while reciting a rhyme. A new person is pointed at as ...
Pages in category "Traditional children's songs" ... One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) One potato, two potato; Oranges and Lemons; Over the River and Through the Wood; P.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1] From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes began to be recorded in English plays, and most popular ...
Two tracks were missing from "The Drunken Sailor". In its place there was a new track – "Humpty Dumpty", with leads vocals by Bob Johnson. In 1989 EMI/Music For Pleasure released a 3-CD set called "The Children's Collection". One CD consisted of spoken fairy stories, one was Disney hits, and one was a different selection of tracks.