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...and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven. [2] The next appearance is in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765) in the form: Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man; That I will Master, As fast as I can; Pat it and prick it, And mark it with a T,
While the first recorded version is of English origin, this song may go back to 1780 in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Oranges and Lemons: Great Britain 1744 [75] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man "Pat-a-cake", "patty-cake" or "pattycake" England 1698 [76]
This irregularity is common in folk songs when litany-like prose texts are set to music. Familiar songs that use this effect are significantly stronger than that with a relatively simple three-bar song, examples like "Backe, backe Kuchen" include " Der Bauer schickt den Jockel aus [ de ] " or the Christmas carol " The Twelve Days of Christmas ".
T. Taffy was a Welshman; There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill
Miss Mary Mack was a performer in Ephraim Williams’ circus in the 1880s; the song may be reference to her and the elephants in the show. [ 7 ] According to another theory, Mary Mack originally referred to the USS Merrimack , a United States warship of the mid-1800s named after the Merrimack River , that would have been black, with silvery rivets.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
A clapping game (or hand game) is a type of usually cooperative (i.e., non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping as a rhythmic accompaniment to a singing game or reciting of a rhyme, often nursery rhymes. Clapping games are found throughout the world and similar games may be known throughout large ...
Tommy Thumb's Song Book is the earliest known collection of British nursery rhymes, printed in 1744. No original copy has survived, but its content has been recovered from later reprints. No original copy has survived, but its content has been recovered from later reprints.