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Other variants include "down the mouse ran" [2] or "down the mouse run" [3] or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down". Other variants have non-sequential numbers, for example starting with "The clock struck ten, The mouse ran down" instead of the traditional "one".
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. 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.
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]
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?’”).
Rhyme Time Town is an American children's animated musical television series developed by DreamWorks Animation Television that reimagines classic nursery rhymes from the viewpoints of two preschoolers, Daisy the puppy and Cole the kitten.
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
The nursery rhyme is a form of teaching such associations in folklore: for individuals raised with such social codes, the phrase "rub-a-dub-dub" alone could stand in for gossip or innuendo without communicating all of the details.
The clock struck one, and down it come, Hickory, dickory, dock New meaning: The mouse in this version represents the computer input device and the clock represents time. Mindy Scott is currently writing The New Babel as a free e-book called “Suddenly in Sanity” on the MINDOLOGY LIVE web site (WWW.MINDOLOGY.US).