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Nursery rhyme; Published: c. 1744: Songwriter(s) Traditional "Little Boy Blue" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318. Lyrics
"Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for ...
The familiar form of the rhyme was first printed in Original Ditties for the Nursery. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: United Kingdom 1806 [115] Written by Jane Taylor as "The Star" and first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery. Wee Willie Winkie: United Kingdom 1841 [116] [117]
Lavender's Blue; Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up; The Lion and the Unicorn; Little Bo-Peep; Little Boy Blue; Little Jack Horner; Little Miss Muffet; Little Poll Parrot; Little Robin Redbreast; Little Tommy Tucker; London Bridge Is Falling Down; Lucy Locket
Lavender's Blue; Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up; The Lion and the Unicorn; Little Bo-Peep; Little Boy Blue; Little Bunny Foo Foo; Little Jack Horner; Little Miss Muffet; Little Poll Parrot; Little Robin Redbreast; Lloyd George Knew My Father (song) London Bridge Is Falling Down; Lucy Locket
The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). The word "sport" in the rhyme is sometimes replaced with "fun", "a sight", or "craft". [4]
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Ten Little Indians; There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill; There's a Hole in My Bucket; This Is the House That Jack Built; This Little Piggy; This Old Man; Three Blind Mice; The Three Jovial ...