Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Lost Lyrics, History & Origins of Old Nursery Rhymes

A Carrion Crow sat on an Oak Rhyme A Farmer went trotting Rhyme A Little Cock Sparrow A Man of Words and not of Deeds A Swarm of Bees in May As I was going by Charing Cross Rhyme As I was going up Pippen Hill Baby Dear, Good Night, Good Night Bessy Bell and Mary Gray Rhyme Bless you, Bless you, Bonny Bee Blow Wind, Blow Bobby Snooks Rhyme Boys and Girls Come out to Play Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose Cock-a-doodle-doo! Come let's to Bed, says Sleepy-head Rhyme Corporal Tim "Croak!" said the Toad Cross Patch Cuckoo, cuckoo, what do you do? Curly Locks, Curly Locks Rhyme Daffy-Down-Dilly Diddledy, Diddledy, Dumpty Elsie Marley's grown so Fine Four and Twenty Tailors Go to Bed First Handy Spandy Jack-a-Dandy He that would Thrive Hector Protector Hey Diddle Dinkety, Poppety, Pet Higgledy Piggledy Hush Baby, my Doll I Do Not Like Thee Doctor Fell I had a little Hobby Horse Rhyme I had a Little Husband I had a Little Nut Tree I had a Little Pony, his Name was Dapple-gray I love Little Pussy I love Sixpence, Jolly, Jolly, Sixpence I saw a Ship a-sailing If all the Seas were one Sea If Candlemas day (2 February) be Dry and Fair If St Paul's Day (29 June) be Fair and Clear If Wishes were Horses Rhyme I'll tell you a Story about Jack a Nory In the Merry Month of May Is John Smith within John Cook he had a Little Grey Mare Kind Hearts are Gardens Leg over Leg Rhyme Little Betty Blue Little Girl, Little Girl where have you been Little Nancy Etticote Little Polly Flinders Little Robin Redbreast Sat upon a Rail Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a Tree Little Tommy Tittlemouse Rhyme London Bells Nursery Rhyme Mary had a Pretty Bird Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Rhyme Miss Jane had a Bag Molly, my Sister, and I fell Out Multiplication is Vexation My Father left me Three Acres of Land My Little Old Man and I fell out Needles and Pins Old Abram Brown Old Chairs to Mend Once I saw a Little Bird One Misty, Moisty Morning Poor old Robinson Crusoe Pussy cat Mole Rhyme Rainbow to Windward Robert Barnes, Fellow Fine Robin and Richard Robin Hood, Robin Hood See a Pin and Pick it up Solomon Grundie Some Little Mice sat in a Barn to spin St. Swithin's Day if thou dost rain Taffy was a Welshman The Barber shaved the Mason The Cuckoo's a Fine Bird The Fair Maid who, the first of May The King of France Rhyme The Man in the Moon The Man in the Wilderness There was a Fat Man of Bombay Limerick There was a Jolly Miller once There was a Little Boy and a Little Girl There was a Little Guinea Pig There was a Little Man Rhyme There was a Man in Thessaly There was a Monkey climbed up a Tree There was an Old Woman called Nothing-at-all There was an Old Woman lived under a Hill

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