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First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70] The song is first attested in William King's Useful Transactions in Philosophy for January and February 1709. Old Mother Hubbard: United Kingdom 1805 [71] [72]
The text refers specifically to the mother rocking her baby. "Halí, dítě" ("Hullee, baby") – This lullaby was collected by František Bartoš (1837–1906), pedagogue and ethnographer who collected Moravian songs. The second line says the carer will leave after the child falls asleep, but in the third line we learn that only to the garden ...
The first, and possibly the most important, academic collections to focus in this area were James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Tales (1849). [13] By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould 's A Book of Nursery Songs (1895), child folklore had become an academic study, full of comments and footnotes.
"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" "Stella Ella Ola" "Ten Green Bottles" "The Song That Never Ends"
The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies, intended to help a child fall asleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. [4] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. [5]
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
In the original version as it appeared both in England and in the United States (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 ...