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The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The Berea Collection includes "correspondence, song texts, and folklore narrative material collected from students by folklore scholar E. C. Perrow, while he was teaching at the University of Louisville diring the early teens of the 1900s. Narrative subject areas include anecdotes, games, riddles, rhymes and superstitions." [14]
If a playground song does have a character, it is usually a child present at the time of the song's performance or the child singing the song. Awkward relations between young boys and girls is a common motif , as in the American playground song, jump-rope rhyme , [ 25 ] or taunt "K-I-S-S-I-N-G", spelt aloud.
Category: Collections of nursery rhymes. ... Tommy Thumb's Song Book; U. Under the Window This page was last edited on 4 December 2020, at 11:51 (UTC ...
T. Taffy was a Welshman; Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!" Ten German Bombers; Ten Green Bottles; There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Pages in category "Nursery rhymes" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Bahay Kubo (song) C. Christian child's prayer; Counting-out game; I.
Once the rhyme entered the nursery repertoire it was frequently included in collections of such lore and tunes were then fitted to it. The Library of Congress preserves an 1885 round for four voices by the Canadian Sydney Percival (musical pseudonym of Joseph Gould ) in which Tommy is "singing for his supper.
The ABC Song; Ah! vous dirai-je, maman; Aiken Drum; All the Pretty Little Horses; Alouette (song) Anak Kambing Saya; Animal Fair (song) Apple Pie ABC; Apples and Bananas; Arabian riff; As I was going by Charing Cross; As I was going to St Ives; Au clair de la lune