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The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
("Pease" was treated as a mass noun, similar to "oatmeal", and the singular "pea" and plural "peas" arose by back-formation.) The earliest recorded version of "Pease Porridge Hot" is a riddle found in John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1760): [3] Pease Porridge hot, Pease Porridge cold, Pease Porridge in the Pot Nine Days old,
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior on "Folk Songs of Olde England" Vol 2 (1968) Roberts and Barrand on "Mellow With Ale From the Horn" (1975) as "Oats and Beans and Barley Grows" Raffi on Baby Beluga as "Oats and Beans and Barley" 1980; James Turner in the 1992 Barney & Friends episode "Eat, Drink And Be Healthy" (season 1, episode 5)
[8] [9] [10] The lyrics include a direct reference to the rhyme: "They'd yell about the musical fruit // They'd say the more that I ate, the more I'd (toot)". [ 11 ] In a "Dot's Poetry Corner" segment of Animaniacs , Dot recites a variation entitled "Ode to a Veggie", that goes "Beans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more they ...
I normally eat breakfast between 8 and 9 a.m. and find myself scavenging for a snack by 10:30 a.m., but I lasted until noon on my first day before I got even the slightest hankering for anything else.
Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...
According to Peter and Iona Opie, the earliest version of this rhyme appeared in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (c. 1744), which recorded only the first four lines. The full version was included in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765).
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