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The rhyme was first published in its modern form in 1844. Down By The Station 'Down at the Station' United States 1947 [29] Written by Paul Mills and Slim Gaillard and first recorded by The Slim Gaillard Trio in 1947. [30] Finger Family Unknown 2007 [31] Origin unknown, this song first appeared on YouTube in 2007. For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
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] From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes began to be recorded in English plays, and most popular ...
Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a ...
A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied in some cultures more than others, they appear to be universal in human society.
"Foxy's Hole" is a nursery rhyme for children that is played as a game. It is thought to originate from the Tudor period. The lyrics are as follows: Put your finger in Foxy's hole Foxy's not at home Foxy's out at the back door Picking at a bone. The game involves the adult catching the child's finger in a clenched fist, which represents Foxy's ...
Line #4: Hold one finger up to represent the frog who fell off the log. Line #5: Pretend to fall over. Line #6: By a show of fingers, hold up the number of frogs still remaining on the log while singing "Now there are four little speckled frogs". Upon singing "(glub, glub)", repeat the same movement as in the second line except look upward as ...
The Opies (folklorists) have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early ...
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.