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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.
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.
The cover of L. Leslie Brooke's Ring O' Roses (1922) shows nursery rhyme characters performing the game It is unknown what the earliest wording of the rhyme was or when it began. Many versions of the game have a group of children form a ring, dance in a circle around a person, and stoop or curtsy with the final line.
Nursery rhyme. Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the first 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. A copy is held in the British Library.
O. The Old Gray Mare. Old MacDonald Had a Farm. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe.
Ladybird Ladybird. Lavender's Blue. The Lion and the Unicorn. Little Arabella Miller. Little Bo-Peep. Little Boy Blue. Little Jack Horner. Little Miss Muffet. Little Poll Parrot.
Lyrics. The most common modern version of the lyrics is: Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs. And in my lady's chamber. There I met an old man. Who wouldn't say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg.