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2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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   The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...

3. Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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   The rhyme is as follows; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got, Was in his mother's pail.

4. This Little Piggy - Wikipedia

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   Illustration by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1857. Nursery rhyme. Published. 1760. Songwriter (s) Unknown. "This Little Pig Went to Market" (often shortened to "This Little Piggy") is an English-language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19297.

5. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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   One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) "One for Sorrow". Three magpies in a tree. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1780. " One for Sorrow " is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck.

7. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Wikipedia

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   The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler. " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep " is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 18th century French melody " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman ".

8. Nursery rhyme - Wikipedia

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   For a Japanese galgame, see Nursery Rhyme (visual novel). 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 ...

9. Little Miss Muffet - Wikipedia

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   Little Miss Muffet. " Little Miss Muffet " is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet.