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First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70] The song is first attested in William King's Useful Transactions in Philosophy for January and February 1709. Old Mother Hubbard: United Kingdom 1805 [71] [72]
The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies, intended to help a child fall asleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. [4] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. [5]
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.
Gammer Gurton's Garland: or, The Nursery Parnassus, edited by the literary antiquary Joseph Ritson, is one of the earliest collections of English nursery rhymes. It was first published as a chapbook in 1784, but was three times reprinted in expanded editions during the following century, as were several unrelated children's books with similar ...
The opening verse of "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg", from an 1860s chapbook. Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. [1] She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery ...
Broadside Band, Old English Nursery Rhymes; Tim Hart and Friends, My Very Favourite Nursery Rhyme Record (1981) Bobby Susser, Wiggle Wiggle and Other Exercises (1996) Various artists, Hello Children Everywhere, Vols. 1–4 (EMI Records, 1988–1991) [46]
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:
Pages in category "English nursery rhymes" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. ... There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe;