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Bobby Shafto's gettin' a bairn, For to dangle on his arm; In his arm and on his knee, Bobby Shafto loves me. [1] Other publications have made changes to some of the words, including the spelling of the last name: Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, With silver buckles on his knee; He'll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe! Bobby Shaftoe's fat ...
Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe) (circa 1732 – 24 November 1797) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme, "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea" (Roud #1359).
Melanie Harold leads on "Bobby Shaftoe". The album was released on the Music for Pleasure label. Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor". The rights for "Music for Pleasure" were sold to EMI Gold, who released an hour-long cassette called "Favourite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985.
The Drunken Sailor and other Kids Favorites is an album by Tim Hart and Friends.. This album follows Tim Hart's first collection "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes". There is a greater variety in treatment - "Hush Little Baby" is sung as a calypso, with the tune of "Island in the Sun" on oil-drums creeping in at the end.
Bobby Shaftoe may refer to: Bobby Shafto, 18th-century English politician and subject of a famous song; Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea, the song itself; Bobby Shaftoe, a lead character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon; Sergeant Bob Shaftoe, a related 17th-century character in Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle
Jack Nicholson Makes Rare TV Appearance at ‘SNL50,’ Introduces Adam Sandler’s Heartfelt Song Honoring the Show’s History
Since the identification of Robert Shaftoe MP and Bobby Shaftoe nursery rhyme is disputed there should be two articles as this is confusion and means that neither article can actually be about the thing they concern. There could be a separate article as 'Bobby Shafto (rhyme)' which takes the info on the rhyme, that was deleted after my edit.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.