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  2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Ring a Ring o' Roses - Wikipedia

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    The cover of L. Leslie Brooke's Ring O' Roses (1922) shows nursery rhyme characters performing the game It is unknown what the earliest wording of the rhyme was or when it began. Many versions of the game have a group of children form a ring, dance in a circle around a person, and stoop or curtsy with the final line.

  4. Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Thomas Nettlingham. " Old MacDonald Had a Farm " (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. For example, if the verse uses a cow as the animal, then "moo" would ...

  5. Hickory Dickory Dock - Wikipedia

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    Hickory Dickory Dock. "Hickory Dickory Dock". Illustration by William Wallace Denslow, from a 1901 Mother Goose collection. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " Hickory Dickory Dock " or " Hickety Dickety Dock " is a popular English-language nursery rhyme.

  6. Miss Polly Had a Dolly - Wikipedia

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    Published. United States, 1865. "Miss Polly Had a Dolly" also known as " Miss Polly had a little dolly", "Miss Polly" or "Miss Molly had a Dolly" is an English-language nursery rhyme, folk song, children's song and action song of American origin, published in 1865. [citation needed] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16289.

  7. Skipping-rope rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping. Such rhymes have been recorded in all cultures where skipping is played. Examples of English-language rhymes have been found going back to at least the 17th century. Like most folklore, skipping rhymes tend to be found in many ...

  8. Rock-a-bye Baby - Wikipedia

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    "Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.

  9. Little Bo-Peep - Wikipedia

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    Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1805. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " Little Bo-Peep " or " Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep " is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6487.