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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 ...
An early reference to counting sheep as a means of attaining sleep can be found in Illustrations of Political Economy by Harriet Martineau, from 1832: "It was a sight of monotony to behold one sheep after another follow the adventurous one, each in turn placing its fore-feet on the breach in the fence, bringing up its hind legs after it, looking around for an instant from the summit, and then ...
Standing's voice is represented by a wired mannequin head with screens, who begins speaking over sheep jumping across a fence. The sheep are then transported through a factory guarded by robots, where machines cut each open to reveal comedy and tragedy masks. Their severed parts are used to create thought bubbles containing the sheep jumping ...
Mentiond in "A Pocket Song Book for the Use of Students and Graduates of McGill Colle". Baa, Baa, Black Sheep: Great Britain 1744 [16] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Baloo Baleerie 'The Bressay Lullaby' United Kingdom 1949 [17] [18] Alliterative nonsense based around the Scots word for lullaby, "baloo". Billy Boy: United ...
We’ve long been told to count sheep to nod off to sleep. Where in the world did this adage come from, and more importantly, does it work?
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
Although Tommy Thumb's Song Book is an older collection, no copies of its first printing have survived. The only other printed copies of nursery rhymes that predate the Pretty Song-Book are in the form of quotations and allusions, such as the half-dozen or so that appear in Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby. [5]
"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.