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Twenty-one, change the gun; Twenty-two, the partridge flew; Twenty-three, she lit on a tree; Twenty-four, she lit down lower…. Twenty-nine, the game is mine; Thirty, make a kerchy. Some of the final lines Bolton's informant could no longer remember. [3] In the UK the rhyme was first recorded in Songs for the Nursery, published in London in ...
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
Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a ...
Anthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organising scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. [17] The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. The book additionally contains references to the ...
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" "On Top of Old Smokey" "Fast Food Song" (a song using the names of several fast food franchises) "Popeye the Sailor Man" (theme song from the 20th-century cartoon series) "Ring Around the Rosie" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Sea Lion Woman" "See Saw Margery Daw" "Singing To The Bus Driver"
A bumblebee stung one of them and then there were five. Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two contemporary composers are credited with writing music for this: as a catch by Samuel Webbe, [5] and as a glee by Luffman Atterbury. [6]James Orchard Halliwell later recorded a similar rhyme in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (London 1846) with the final line changed to "You cannot do better than to eat them yourselves". [7]
The title is a mockery of American children's game Chutes and Ladders (also known in the United Kingdom as Snakes and Ladders), with the song's lyrics mostly consisting of nursery rhymes. It is the first Korn song to feature bagpipes. [8] The song uses the following nursery rhymes in its lyrics: [9] "Ring a Ring o' Roses" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"