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However, it did not appear in print until it was included in Nurse Truelove's New-Year's-Gift, or the Book of Books for Children, printed in London in 1755. [6] It was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [3] Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878 which proved to be extremely ...
Rhymes of Old Times (1925) The Magic Lamplighter (Marion St John Webb, 1926) An Alphabet of Magic (Eleanor Farjeon, 1928) Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes (1929) The Margaret Tarrant Birthday Book (1932) Joan in Flowerland (1935) co-written with Lewis Dutton [13] The Margaret Tarrant Nursery Rhyme Book (1944) The Story of Christmas (1952)
The rhyme first appeared in print in Songs for the Nursery. Little Robin Redbreast: Great Britain 1744 [60] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Little Tommy Tucker: Great Britain 1744 [61] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. London Bridge Is Falling Down 'My Fair Lady' or 'London Bridge' Great Britain 1744 [62]
A-Haunting We Will Go (disambiguation), a title play on this song "Bye, baby Bunting, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting", a similarly constructed song "Ee Aye Addio" - an English football chant to the same tune "The Farmer in the Dell" - a song with similar lyrics, content, and music "You're in the Army Now" - another song with similar lyrics
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.
"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.
Play ⓘ A version of this rhyme, together with music (in a minor key), was published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609). [3] The editor of the book, and possible author of the rhyme, [4] was Thomas Ravenscroft. [1] The original lyrics are: Three Blinde Mice, Three Blinde Mice, Dame Iulian, Dame Iulian,