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  2. Mary Had a Little Lamb - Wikipedia

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    Illustration by William Wallace Denslow (1902) Nursery rhyme. Songwriter (s) Sarah Josepha Hale, John Roulstone. " Mary Had a Little Lamb " is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622.

  3. The Muffin Man - Wikipedia

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    The Muffin Man. Sheet music for Harry King's setting of the song performed by Dan Leno (1889) " The Muffin Man " is a traditional nursery rhyme, children's song, or children's game of English origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7922.

  4. Nursery rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1] From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes began to be recorded in English plays, and most popular ...

  5. 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

  6. Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Wikipedia

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    Old MacDonald Had a Farm. " 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 be ...

  7. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater - Wikipedia

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    Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater". William Wallace Denslow 's illustrations for "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater", from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1825. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Wikipedia

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    Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler. " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep " is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 18th century French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman".