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The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1]
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.
Wagging (bringing) their tails behind them. [ 1] 19th century educational game. Little Bo-Peep, by Walter Crane, c. 1885 Play ⓘ. Common variations on second-line include "And can't tell where to find them." The fourth line is frequently given as "Bringing their tails behind them", [ 2] or sometimes "Dragging their tails behind them".
Round and Round the Garden. (Redirected from Round and round the garden) "Round and round the garden". Nursery rhyme. Published. 1940s. " Round and round the garden " is an English language nursery rhyme typically accompanied by fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19235.
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.
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A song with the title: "Molly Put the Kettle On or Jenny's Baubie" was published by Joseph Dale in London in 1803. [2] It was also printed, with "Polly" instead of "Molly" in Dublin about 1790–1810 and in New York around 1803–07. [3] The nursery rhyme is mentioned in Charles Dickens ' Barnaby Rudge (1841), which is the first record of the ...
Jack is a dog, in Denslow's version. The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 A.D. and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century. [1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame.