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"Hickory Dickory Dock" or "Hickety Dickety Dock" is a popular ... Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. ... List of nursery rhymes; Hickory, Dickory, and ...
Hickory Dickory Dock 'Hickety Dickety Dock' Great Britain 1744 [41] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. The Hokey Cokey 'The Hokey Pokey' United Kingdom 1842 [42] Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain 1767 [43]
A later book in the English-to-French genre is N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes), published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay. [6] It contains some forty nursery rhymes, among which are Coucou doux de Ledoux (Cock-A-Doodle-Doo), Signe, garçon. Neuf Sikhs se pansent (Sing a Song of Sixpence) and Hâte, carrosse bonzes (Hot Cross Buns).
Some nursery rhymes turn up in disguise: The Moon shines Bright, The Stars give a light, And you may kiss A pretty girl At ten a clock at night. This is an earlier version of: When I was a little boy My mammy kept me in, Now I am a great boy, I'm fit to serve the king. I can handle a musket, And I can smoke a pipe. And I can kiss a pretty girl
This is nevertheless one of her most tenuous links to the original nursery rhyme, consisting of little more than the name of a road and an allusion being "in the dock," i.e. on trial. (“‘Hickory, dickory, dock,’ said Nigel, ‘the mouse ran up the clock. The police said, “Boo,” I wonder who, will eventually stand in the Dock?’”).
Hickory Dickory Dock – A grandfather clock that a mouse would slowly climb up while the hands spun around. Once at the top, the clock would strike one, and the mouse ran down. Jack in the box – Press a button and he pops out.
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Hickory Mouse (31 Oct 1985): A mouse named Hickory meets the Wideawake Mice in the Magician's garden and boasts about his bravery by frightening the Griffle and Miss Pitter-Patter, but while entering Old Mr. Gotobed's house, finds himself imitating the actions of the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock". The Gruffle In Puddle Lane (30 Jan 1986)