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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]
"Rub-a-dub-dub" is an English language nursery rhyme first published at the end of the 18th century in volume two of Hook's Christmas Box [1] under the title "Dub a dub dub" rather than "Rub a dub dub". It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3101.
Roughly half of the current body of recognised "traditional" English rhymes were known by the mid-eighteenth century. [11] In the early nineteenth century, printed collections of rhymes began to spread to other countries, including Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826) and, in the United States, Mother Goose's Melodies (1833). [5]
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:
The first two lines at least appeared in dance books (1708, 1719, 1728), satires (1709, 1725), and a political broadside (1711). It appeared in the earliest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London around 1744. The 1744 version included the first six lines. [3]
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.
"Bye, baby Bunting" (Roud 11018) is an English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby. [citation needed] Lyrics and melody. The most common modern version is: