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The rhyme was first recorded in print by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842: [2] There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house. It gained popularity in the early twentieth century. [3]
The song was based on the English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man". The song was first recorded as "Crooked Little House" by Jimmie Rodgers in 1960, on his album At Home with Jimmie Rodgers - An Evening of Folk Songs, on which the songwriting was credited to Ersel Hickey and Ed E. Miller. [2]
The original English nursery rhymes that correspond to the numbered poems in Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames are as follows: [3] Humpty Dumpty; Old King Cole; Hey Diddle Diddle; Old Mother Hubbard; There Was a Little Man and He Had a Little Gun; Hickory Dickory Dock; Jack Sprat; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; There Was a Crooked Man; Little Miss ...
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288). Needles and Pins: United Kingdom 1842 [69] First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70]
"Popeye the Sailor Man" (theme song from the 20th-century cartoon series) "Ring Around the Rosie" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Sea Lion Woman" "See Saw Margery Daw" "Singing To The Bus Driver" "Stella Ella Ola" "Ten Green Bottles" "The Song That Never Ends" "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" "This Old Man" ("Knick-Knack Paddywhack")
There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill; There's a Hole in My Bucket; This Is the House That Jack Built; This Little Light of Mine; This Little Piggy; This Old Man; Three Blind Mice; The Three Jovial ...
The film stars Jack Kesy as Hellboy, who investigates a community of witches in the Appalachian mountains in 1959 when he comes across a ghostly entity called the Crooked Man (Martin Bassindale).
It has been suggested that “it’s raining. It’s pouring” is a metaphor for alcohol liberally flowing. The old man gets drunk causing him to bump his head. It has further been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning"). [7]