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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.
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush " (also titled " Mulberry Bush " or " This Is the Way ") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
Little Miss Muffet. " Little Miss Muffet " is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet .
Sheet music cover featuring Von Tilzer, 1912. " And the Green Grass Grew All Around ", also known as " The Green Grass Grew All Around " or " And the Green Grass Grows All Around ", is a traditional Appalachian folk song that was first noted in 1877 in Miss M. H. Mason's book Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, but is likely to be much older. [1]
Three Billy Goats Gruff. " Three Billy Goats Gruff " ( Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale [1] collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. [2] It has an Aarne-Thompson type of 122E.
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater". William Wallace Denslow 's illustrations for "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater", from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1825. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497.
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.
A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler 's 1916 illustration Play ⓘ. " Jack and Jill " (sometimes " Jack and Gill ", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, [1] although it has been set to several others.