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The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
Charles H. Bennett's illustration of the rhyme from 1858 "Needles and Pins" is an English language proverb and nursery rhyme and was first recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). [1] Since then it has appeared largely unchanged in many other collections of nursery rhymes. Its usual form is
The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. [3] The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. [5]
Rhyme Genie is a rhyming dictionary software developed by Idolumic for the Mac OS X, iOS and Microsoft Windows platforms. Initially released in 2009 it was introduced as the world's first dynamic rhyming dictionary with 30 different rhyme types, 300,000 entries and more than 9 million phonetic references.
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison checks in with a column about couplets, which poets like Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot used to great effect.
After adjusting for sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, family history of dementia, baseline cognitive function and medications that affect cognition, the researchers analyzed whether there ...
A man who was running away from police has been arrested after getting stuck in a chimney while trying to hide from them, authorities said. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Fall River ...
Denslow illustration of Simple Simon and the pie man. The rhyme is as follows; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale;