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  2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme was first published in its modern form in 1844. Down By The Station 'Down at the Station' United States 1947 [29] Written by Paul Mills and Slim Gaillard and first recorded by The Slim Gaillard Trio in 1947. [30] Finger Family Unknown 2007 [31] Origin unknown, this song first appeared on YouTube in 2007. For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

  3. Rub-a-dub-dub - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Nursery rhyme - Wikipedia

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    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 began to be recorded in English plays, and most popular ...

  6. Children's song - Wikipedia

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    The first, and possibly the most important, academic collections to focus in this area were James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Tales (1849). [13] By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould 's A Book of Nursery Songs (1895), child folklore had become an academic study, full of comments and footnotes.

  7. One, Two, Three, Four, Five - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a ...

  8. Fingerplay - Wikipedia

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    Some chants or nursery rhymes that incorporate fingerplay include the "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Round and round the garden", and "This Little Piggy". The gestural components of the rhymes serve to attract the child's attention, [ 4 ] and reciting chants or stories can help a child to develop an ear for sounds, and discover that they can be ...

  9. Foxy's Hole - Wikipedia

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    "Foxy's Hole" is a nursery rhyme for children that is played as a game. It is thought to originate from the Tudor period. The lyrics are as follows: Put your finger in Foxy's hole Foxy's not at home Foxy's out at the back door Picking at a bone. The game involves the adult catching the child's finger in a clenched fist, which represents Foxy's ...