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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 ...
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, 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"
These include Iona and Peter Opie, Joseph Ritson, James Orchard Halliwell, and Sir Walter Scott. [3] While there are "nursery rhymes" which are called "children's songs", not every children's song is referred to as a nursery rhyme (example: Puff, the Magic Dragon, and Baby Shark). This list is limited to songs which are known as nursery rhymes ...
Pages in category "English nursery rhymes" ... Girls and Boys Come Out to Play; ... One, Two, Three, Four, Five; Oranges and Lemons; P.
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.
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 ...
The rhyme has been used or interpolated in popular music since the 1950s. The earliest known song to contain the rhyme's lyrics is "Rock Around the Clock" by Hal Singer in 1950. Other early examples are in the intros of "Whatcha Gonna Do" by Bill Haley & His Comets from 1953 and "Roll Hot Rod Roll" by Oscar McLollie and " Blue Suede Shoes " by ...