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Nursery rhyme; Published: c. 1744: Songwriter(s) Traditional "Little Boy Blue" is an English-language nursery rhyme. ... Lyrics. A common version of the rhyme is:
"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 ...
In the next surviving printing, in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), the text remained the same, except the last lines, which were given as, "But none for the little boy who cries in the lane". [1] As with many nursery rhymes, attempts have been made to find origins and meanings for the rhyme, most of which have no corroborating evidence. [1]
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288). Needles and Pins: United Kingdom 1842 [69] First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70]
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 song consists of Dread's ribald lyrics over a nursery rhyme tune. [4] Origin ... You see, the Judge called it 'Little Boy Blue', whereas I thought 'Big Six' would ...
A little boy he picked it up And put it in his pocket. In some variants, the second line is "I lost my yellow basket". In other variants, the last line is "A little girl she picked it up and put it in her pocket". In 19th century England, the rhyme used in the same game had somewhat different but evidently related words: I lost my supper, last ...
In L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose", the rhyme was written by a farm boy named Bobby who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the moon's reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into ...