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Origin unknown, lyrics from this song are mentioned as early as 1912. Hickory Dickory Dock 'Hickety Dickety Dock' Great Britain 1744 [40] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. The Hokey Cokey 'The Hokey Pokey' United Kingdom 1842 [41] Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain ...
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. [2] Since teddy bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is likely to be fairly recent in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there": [2]
In practice none of these categories is entirely discrete, since, for example, children often reuse and adapt nursery rhymes, and many songs now considered as traditional were deliberately written by adults for commercial ends. The Opies further divided nursery rhymes into a number of groups, including [3] Amusements (including action songs)
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.
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" Play ⓘ This is a list of English-language playground songs.. Playground songs are often rhymed lyrics that are sung. Most do not have clear origin, were invented by children and spread through their interactions such as on playgrounds.
BBC School Radio online - Nursery Songs. "Oranges and Lemons" (with animation and lyrics) The British Library Sound and Moving Images Catalogue - List Recording 1CD0323981 on Audio CD : Oranges & lemons. Tunes from the collection 'The Dancing Master' (includes notes by Annegret Fischer, and song texts) Map of the likely church locations
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.