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Here Comes an Old Soldier from Botany Bay 'Here Comes an Old Soldier' or 'Old Soldier USA, Australia or British Isles Late 19th Century Here We Go Looby Loo 'Looby Loo', 'Loopty Loo', 'Loop de Loo', 'Here We Go Loopty Loo' USA Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 'Mulberry Bush', 'This Is the Way', 'This is the way (we)' England: c. 1850 Hey ...
Unknown. " There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe " is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also ...
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.
the other being St Ives, Cambridgeshire. " As I was going to St Ives " (Roud 19772) is a traditional English-language nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle. The most common modern version is: As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits:
Origin. 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 ...
Hickory Dickory Dock. "Hickory Dickory Dock". Illustration by William Wallace Denslow, from a 1901 Mother Goose collection. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " Hickory Dickory Dock " or " Hickety Dickety Dock " is a popular English-language nursery rhyme.
A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler 's 1916 illustration ⓘ. " Jack and Jill " (sometimes " Jack and Gill ", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, [ 1 ] although it has been set to several others.
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry, When the girls came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away. These appeared in The Kentish Coronal (1841), where the rhyme was described as an "old ballad" with the name spelled "Georgy Peorgy". [1] That version persisted through most of the 19th century and was later illustrated ...