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  2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Here Comes an Old Soldier from Botany Bay 'Here Comes an Old Soldier' or 'Old Soldier USA, Australia or British Isles Late 19th Century Here We Go Looby Loo 'Looby Loo', 'Loopty Loo', 'Loop de Loo', 'Here We Go Loopty Loo' USA Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 'Mulberry Bush', 'This Is the Way', 'This is the way (we)' England: c. 1850 Hey ...

  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. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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    Jack and Jill. 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 ...

  5. There Was a Crooked Man - Wikipedia

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    Origin. The rhyme was first recorded in print by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842: [2] There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house. It gained popularity in the early twentieth ...

  6. Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme is as follows; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got, Was in his mother's pail.

  7. Rub-a-dub-dub - Wikipedia

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    Rub-a-dub-dub. (Redirected from Rub-A-Dub-Dub) "Rub-a-dub-dub". Nursery rhyme. Published. 1798. " Rub-a-dub-dub " is an English language nursery rhyme first published at the end of the 18th century in volume two of Hook's Christmas Box[1] under the title "Dub a dub dub" rather than "Rub a dub dub". It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3101.

  8. Three Little Kittens - Wikipedia

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    Three Little Kittens. " Three Little Kittens " is an English language nursery rhyme, probably with roots in the British folk tradition. The rhyme as published today however is a sophisticated piece usually attributed to American poet Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860). With the passage of time, the poem has been absorbed into the Mother Goose ...

  9. Goosey Goosey Gander - Wikipedia

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    History and alternative versions. Illustration by Beatrix Potter in Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922). The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus published in London in 1784. Like most early versions of the rhyme it does not include the last four lines: Goose-a goose-a gander,