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Songwriter (s) unknown. " If wishes were horses, beggars would ride " is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
The name "Jack Sprat" was used of people of small stature in the 16th century. [1] This rhyme became an English proverb from at least the mid-17th century. [1] It appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form: [1] Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane. Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles, written and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, is a 1945 picture book published by Simon & Schuster. The Rooster Crows was a Caldecott Medal winner for illustration in 1946. [1] This book is a collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles ...
The song "Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts" is a children's public domain playground song popular throughout the United States. Dating back to at least the mid-20th century, the song is sung to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare". [1] The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors ...
The Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen, 1918 title page. The Little Red Hen, illustrated by Florence White Williams. The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. [1] The story is meant to teach children the importance of hard work and personal initiative .
Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. It tells the story of Laura and Lizzie who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. [1] In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, was not ...
Revolting Rhymes is a 1982 poetry collection by British author Roald Dahl. Originally published under the title Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes , it is a parody of traditional folk tales in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales , featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes.
July 30, 2024 at 10:30 AM. CC Westwood/Shutterstock. Things could have looked a lot differently for a lamb named Porsche. The young sheep was born without any hooves, a painful condition that left ...