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In the Wee Sing video "Grandpa's Magical Toys", while the children and toys are taking a brief break, they discover the cookies missing from the cookie jar and launch into the song, only for the cookie jar to point out at the end of the song that nobody took the cookies because they all ate them the day before.
That killed the rat that ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog that worried the cat That killed the rat that ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the priest all shaven and shorn
Drake joined Hoffman and Livingston to come up with a tune for the new version of the rhyme, but for a year no one was willing to publish a "silly song". Finally, Hoffman pitched it to his friend Al Trace, bandleader of the Silly Symphonists. Trace liked the song and recorded it. It became a huge hit, most notably with the Merry Macs' 1944 ...
Iona and Peter Opie observed that, although the rhyme had remained fairly consistent, the game associated with it has changed at least three times including: as a forfeit game, a guessing game, and a dancing ring. [1] London Cries: A Muffin Man by Paul Sandby (c. 1759) In The Young Lady's Book (1888), Matilda Anne Mackarness described the game as:
Like many nursery rhymes, "Jack Sprat" may have originated as a satire on a public figure. History writer Linda Alchin suggests that Jack was King Charles I, who was left "lean" when parliament denied him taxation, but with his queen Henrietta Maria he was free to "lick the platter clean" after he dissolved parliament—Charles was a notably short man.
May 4th is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! While we're celebrating with chocolate chip cookie fun facts and trivia, we'd feel remiss if we left our friend Cookie Monster out of the festivities.
From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The entire story is told in second person.A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings).
Early in that century, too, possible evidence of the rhyme's prior existence is suggested by the appearance of the line "Tom would eat meat but wants a knife" in An excellent new Medley (c. 1620), a composite work in which each line incorporates a reference to a contemporary song. [4]