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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 ...
The rhyme was first recorded in print by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842: [2] There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house. It gained popularity in the early twentieth century. [3]
Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for mixed voices (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. [1] Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. [2] The five movements are: [2] Monday's Child; The Owl and the Pussycat; Windy Nights
The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698, where a nurse says to her charges: ...and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven.
On Ihsahn's album Eremita (2012) is a song entitled "Something Out There", which uses the lyrics "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". The rhyme is referenced in the Fall Out Boy song, "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me".
Nursery Rhyme Medley: "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", "Sing a Song of Sixpence", "Old King Cole" – 1:57 "Alphabet Song" – 1:26 "Why Do They Make Things Like They Do?" (Michael and Patty Silversher and Larry Groce) – 2:04 "Loch Lomond" – 2:04 "A-Hunting We Will Go" – 0:54 "Down in the Valley" – 2:05 "Waltzing Matilda" (Banjo Paterson) – 2:25
Nursery rhymes [ edit ] As an individual musician, apart from his ballads, his idiosyncratic arrangements included " Sing a Song of Sixpence ," " Mary Had a Little Lamb ," " Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ," " Little Boy Blue ," " Old Mother Hubbard " and " Little Jack Horner ", set in the style of George Frederick Handel .
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288). Needles and Pins: United Kingdom 1842 [69] First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70]