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  2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    While there are "nursery rhymes" which are called "children's songs", not every children's song is referred to as a nursery rhyme (example: Puff, the Magic Dragon, and Baby Shark). This list is limited to songs which are known as nursery rhymes through reliable sources.

  3. 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]

  4. Category:English nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    T. Taffy was a Welshman; There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill

  5. Children's song - Wikipedia

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    In practice none of these categories is entirely discrete, since, for example, children often reuse and adapt nursery rhymes, and many songs now considered as traditional were deliberately written by adults for commercial ends. The Opies further divided nursery rhymes into a number of groups, including [3] Amusements (including action songs)

  6. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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    It is so used, for example, in the proverb "Every Jack (shall/must) have his Jill", [6] to which there are references in two plays by William Shakespeare dating from the 1590s. [7] The compress of vinegar and brown paper to which Jack resorted after his fall was a common home cure used to heal bruises.

  7. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children. Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes. Children have always enjoyed both works of poetry written for children and works of poetry intended for adults.

  8. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Wikipedia

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    "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626.

  9. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Wikipedia

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    In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded: Nine, ten, kill a fat hen;