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  2. Girls and Boys Come Out to Play - Wikipedia

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    The first two lines at least appeared in dance books (1708, 1719, 1728), satires (1709, 1725), and a political broadside (1711). It appeared in the earliest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London around 1744. The 1744 version included the first six lines. [3]

  3. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' Great Britain 1708 [36] The first two lines appeared in dance books in 1708. Goosey Goosey Gander: Great Britain 1784 [37] The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus published in London in 1784. Green Gravel: United Kingdom ...

  4. Georgie Porgie - Wikipedia

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    Kissed the girls and made them cry, When the girls came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away. These appeared in The Kentish Coronal (1841), where the rhyme was described as an "old ballad" with the name spelled "Georgy Peorgy". [1] That version persisted through most of the 19th century and was later illustrated by Kate Greenaway in 1881. [2]

  5. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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    A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler's 1916 illustration Play ⓘ "Jack and Jill" (sometimes "Jack and Gill", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, [1] although it has been set to several others. The ...

  6. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe - Wikipedia

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    "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject.

  7. Lucy Locket - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842, but there is evidence that it was popular in Britain and America at least in the early nineteenth century. [3] Various persons have been identified with Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. Halliwell suggested that they were "two celebrated courtesans of the time of Charles II", but no ...

  8. Pussy Cat Pussy Cat - Wikipedia

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    The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). [3] For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you there'.

  9. Jack Be Nimble - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century. [1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame. [1]

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