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  2. London Bridge Is Falling Down - Wikipedia

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    "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realis

  3. Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun - Wikipedia

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    Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun (Korean: 『동, 동, 동대문』) is a nursery rhyme sung among Korean children, usually while playing a game. It is also the name of the game. Its melody starts identically to the German children's song "Lasst uns froh und munter sein", but ends differently. [1] Dongdaemun and Namdaemun are the old city gates of Seoul.

  4. Little Bo-Peep - Wikipedia

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    As with most products of oral tradition, there are many variations to the rhyme. The most common modern version is: Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And doesn't know where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, Wagging their tails behind them. 19th century educational game Little Bo-Peep, by Walter Crane, c. 1885 Play ⓘ

  5. Mixed-Up Mother Goose - Wikipedia

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    Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose is an educational adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1987. It was the first multimedia game released on CD-ROM in 1991. [2] A second game in the series, Mixed-Up Fairy Tales, was released in 1991. The storyline of the game is very simple, as is common in games for children.

  6. One potato, two potato - Wikipedia

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    The popularity of particular counting-out rhyme wordings has varied over the years. In 1969 Iona and Peter Opie found "One potato, two potato" to be "in constant use" both in the UK and the USA during the 20th century [6] but by 2010, although still very well known, Steve Roud found that it was no longer British children's first choice for counting out.

  7. List of playground songs - Wikipedia

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    List of nursery rhymes; Counting-out game This page was last edited on 24 September 2023, at 00:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. Tinker, Tailor - Wikipedia

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    A similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. 1475), in which pawns are named: "Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant, Physician, Taverner, Guard and Ribald." [1] The first record of the opening four professions being grouped together is in William Congreve's Love for Love (1695), which has the lines:

  9. 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.