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2. Rub-a-dub-dub - Wikipedia

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   The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies – the maids. The nonsense "rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk", albeit of a more lascivious variety.

3. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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   Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain 1767 [43] This originated as an English street cry that was later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme. The words closest to the rhyme that has survived were printed in 1767. Humpty Dumpty: Great Britain 1797 [44]

4. Soft Kitty - Wikipedia

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   Soft Kitty" is a children's song, popularized by the characters Sheldon Cooper and Penny in the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and which elsewhere may be rendered as "Warm Kitty." [1] A 2015 copyright lawsuit alleged the words to "Warm Kitty" were written by Edith Newlin; however, the lawsuit was dismissed because the court found that the ...

5. Monday's Child - Wikipedia

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   "Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.

6. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Wikipedia

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   In the next surviving printing, in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), the text remained the same, except the last lines, which were given as, "But none for the little boy who cries in the lane". [1] As with many nursery rhymes, attempts have been made to find origins and meanings for the rhyme, most of which have no corroborating evidence. [1]

7. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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   A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler's 1916 illustration Play ⓘ "Jack and Jill" (sometimes "Jack and Gill", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, [1] although it has been set to several others. The ...