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A literary variation on the rhyme was written by Caroline Anne Southey, published under the pseudonym "C." early in the 19th century. [16] The nine-stanza poem appeared in an 1827 issue of Blackwood's Magazine. [17] Titled "To The Lady Bird", the first stanza reads Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home, The field mouse is gone to her nest,
History and alternative versions. 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: Goose-a goose-a gander,
See Saw Margery Daw. "See Saw Margery Daw". Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1765. "See Saw Margery Daw" is an English language nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765. [1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13028.
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes dates the song to a manuscript compiled some time between 1770 and 1780. Chappell's Popular Music dates the song to 1792, when it was first published as sheet music. The notes by Stenhouse in the second volume of Johnson's Scots Musical Museum record a concurrent Anglo-Scottish publication. [11] [12]
In the United States, the song is sometimes syncretized with the other traditional folk song "Jack of Diamonds". Lyrics usually include the line (or a slight variation): "The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies; she brings us glad tidings, and she tells us no lies." [1] [2]
"Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.
The Queen Was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey, by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c. 1602), (Twelfth Night 2.3/32–33), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play Bonduca, which contains the line "Whoa ...
Tinker, Tailor. "Tinker Tailor". Nursery rhyme. Published. 1695. " Tinker, Tailor " is a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song traditionally played in England, that can be used to count cherry stones, buttons, daisy petals and other items. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 802. It is commonly used by children in both ...