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The song was featured on YouTube in 2007, where it was used in an Indian commercial for the 5 Star chocolate brand. [4] It was also featured on YouTube as a nursery rhyme in 2009 by the channel Shemrock Nursery Rhymes. [5] The nursery rhyme has been recreated by many other edutainment YouTube channels targeting young children. [6]
Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel Jamaica Inn references the nursery rhyme in the scene at Launceston between Jem Merlyn and Mary Yellan. ‘He took her face in his hands. ‘“One for sorrow, two for joy”’ he said.
"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.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.
"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.
Once the rhyme entered the nursery repertoire it was frequently included in collections of such lore and tunes were then fitted to it. The Library of Congress preserves an 1885 round for four voices by the Canadian Sydney Percival (musical pseudonym of Joseph Gould ) in which Tommy is "singing for his supper.
Derek McCulloch, as Uncle Mac – Nursery Rhymes (No. 4) (His Master's Voice, 7EG 8487). This is a 7-inch extended play record. The year of issue is not known, but McCulloch died in 1967. Mike Sammes, as The Michael Sammes Singers – Nursery Rhyme Toys (HMV Junior, 7EG 108). This is a 7-inch extended play record issued in 1959.