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Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]
It also appears in Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete, printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. [1] A verse collected from Aberdeen, Scotland and published in 1868 had the words: Peter, my neeper,
"Mother Goose" was written by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson. Anderson, who recalled writing the song in the summer of 1970, singled out the song as one of the earliest written for the band's 1971 album, Aqualung. He also noted the song as being somewhat atypical of his writing style, commenting, "I tend to be more in social realism, in ...
Their music was not in the original stage production; [2] although it did use George V. Hobart's lyrics. [1] Mother Goose is a musical in three acts with music by Frederick Solomon, lyrics by George V. Hobart, and a book by John J. McNally that was adapted from Arthur Collins and J. Hickory Wood's libretto for the 1902 pantomime of the same ...
Mother Goose's Melody; William Francis Prideaux (1840–1914). (1904) Mother Goose's melody; Miller, Olive Beaupré. In the Nursery of My Bookhouse. Chicago: The Book House for Children Publishers (1920). Whitmore, William H. The Original Mother Goose's Melody, as First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Albany: Joel Munsell's ...
The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'. [1] The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme. [1] Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera (8), Devera (9) and Dick (10) which are from the language Cumbric. [1]
1 Lyrics. 2 Origins and meaning. 3 In popular culture. 4 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... On a 1958 vinyl album of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes [by ...
According to Peter and Iona Opie, the earliest version of this rhyme appeared in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (c. 1744), which recorded only the first four lines. The full version was included in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765).