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Category Archives: Nursery rhymes & lullabys

Home / Archive Category: Nursery rhymes & lullabys

Hey Diddle Diddle

Mar 31, 2023Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys

Best-known nonsense verse in the English language, which gave rise to the phrase “over the moon”.

Monday’s Child

Feb 10, 2023Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys

Nursery rhyme supposed to foretell a child’s character or future from their day of birth.

Hush-a-bye Baby

Dec 8, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabysBetter than Wikipedia

Perhaps the best-known English lullaby, the earliest known version of which was published in about 1765.

Jack and Jill

Dec 5, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabysBetter than Wikipedia

English nursery rhyme, the earliest known version of which was published in about 1765.

As I was going to St. Ives

Dec 3, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys

Nursery rhyme in the form of a puzzle, to which the correct answer is open to debate.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Apr 23, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys, PoetryBetter than Wikipedia

English poem and nursery rhyme by Jane Taylor, first published in 1806 under the title “The Star”.

Jack Sprat

Apr 3, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabysBetter than Wikipedia

English nursery rhyme first recorded in the form we know it today in 1670.

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

Mar 13, 2022Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabysBetter than Wikipedia

English nursery rhyme the earliest known version of which appears in 1784, perhaps referring to a tax on wool introduced in 1275.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Dec 20, 2021Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys

English nursery rhyme that may be about Queen Mary I.

Wee Willie Winkie

Oct 14, 2021Eric CorbettNursery rhymes & lullabys

Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits, first published in 1841.

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