A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes

By Sabine Baring-Gould

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 4064066426392

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Sabine Baring-Gould

A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066426392

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. THE TASK

II. A LYING TALE

III. THREE JOVIAL WELSHMEN

IV. THE NUT TREE

V. THE FOX

VI. THE HERRING'S HEAD

VII. MOTHER'S SONG

VIII. THE FOOLISH BOY

IX. TOMMY-A-LYNN

X. PRIMROSE HILL

XI. GREEN AND AIRY AROUND

XII. LAST NIGHT THE DOGS DID BARK

XIII. NICE YOUNG MAIDENS

XIV. AMONG THE GREEN HAY

XV. ONE MICHAELMAS MORN

XVI. THE OLD COUPLE

XVII. THE FROG WHO WOULD A-WOOING GO

XVIII. MY JOHNNY WAS A SHOEMAKER

XIX. THE JACKET AND PETTICOAT

XX. THE WHALE

XXI. WINE AND WATER

XXII. THE TREE IN THE WOOD

XXIII. THE QUAKER SONG

XXIV. GOOD KING ARTHUR

XXV. MY BILLY BOY

XXVI. THE CARRION CROW

XXVII. THE BABES IN THE WOOD

XXVIII. I LOVE SIXPENCE

XXIX. THE LITTLE DANDY

XXX. WIG, HAT, AND CANE

XXXI. CHIT, CHAT

XXXII. SONG OF SPRING

XXXIII. WINTER SONG

XXXIV. THREE CHILDREN SLIDING

XXXV. IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER

XXXVI. IF I HAD TWO SHIPS

XXXVII. THE HUNTING OF THE HARE

XXXVIII. THE LITTLE MAN

XXXIX. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

XL. LUCY LOCKET

XLI. LITTLE BINGO

XLII. A SHIP A-SAILING

XLIII. THE SCARECROW

XLIV. ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING

XLV. LITTLE JOHN COOK

XLVI. LITTLE BO-PEEP

XLVII. THE MAGPIE

XLVIII. ROBIN REDBREAST AND JENNY WREN

XLIX. NEW-YEAR'S DAY

L. THE DILLY SONG

LI. GREEN BROOM

LIL. TOM, THE PIPER'S SON

LIII. WHERE ARE YOU GOING MY PRETTY MAID?

LIV. LULLABY

LV. THE ROBIN

LVI. CLICK, CLACK

LVII. THE SNAIL

LVIII. SCHOOL OVER

LIX. TWINKLE, TWINKLE

LX. GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING

LXI. THE PIGS

LXII. THE LITTLE FISHERMAN

LXIII. THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN

LXIV. THE RIDDLE

LXV. GIRLS AND BOYS COME OUT TO PLAY

LXVI. MRS. BOND

LXVII. THE LITTLE COCK-SPARROW

LXVIII. THE GOOSE AND GANDER

LXIX. AIKEN DRUM

LXX. PUSSY-CAT

LXXI. THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE

LXXII. THE GOLDEN BALL

LXXIII. MRS. MARY

LXXIV. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD

LXXV. WHO KILLED COCK-ROBIN?

LXXVI. THE JEW'S GARDEN

LXXVII. LITTLE ST. WILLIAM

I. THREE DUKES A-RIDING

II. ORANGES AND LEMONS

III. GREEN GRAVEL

IV. PRETTY LITTLE GIRL

V. THE PRICKLY BUSH

VI. JINNY, JAN

VII. MARY BROWN

VIII. THE POOR WOMAN OF BABYLON

IX. ROSY APPLE

X. FORTY DUKES

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XXIII.

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XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

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XLI.

XLII.

XLIII.

XLIV.

XLV.

XLVI.

XLVII.

XLVIII.

XLIX.

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LII.

LIII.

LIV.

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LVI.

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LVIII.

LIX.

LX.

LXI.

LXII.

LXIII.

LXIV.

LXV.

LXVI.

LXVII.

LXVIII.

LXIX.

LXX.

LXXI.

LXXII.

LXXIII.

LXXIV.

LXXV.

LXXVI.

LXXVII.

LXXIX.

LXXX.

LXXXI.

LXXXII.

LXXXIII.

LXXXIV.

LXXXV.

LXXXVI.

LXXXVII.

LXXXVIII.

LXXXIX.

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Introduction

Table of Contents

IN 1837 Mr. J. B. Ker gave a book to the world in two volumes, entitled 'The Archaeology of Nursery Rhymes,' which is, perhaps, one of the oddest instances extant of misdirected labour. Mr. Ker started from the point that Nursery Rhymes are usually arrant nonsense. Why should little Miss Muffet sit on a tuffet, and little Jack Horner occupy a corner? He assumed that the English nurse was incapable of composing and singing nonsense, which, it must be allowed, was a large assumption at the outset. Then he convinced himself, and desired to convince others, that a great deal of meaning lurked behind this nonsense. To find out the meaning was his next undertaking, and he discovered that by rendering the Nursery Rhymes of Old England into Dutch words having a resemblance in sound more or less far-fetched, strings of words could be obtained which, with a little arrangement, were capable of being represented as a tirade against monarchism, sacerdotalism, catholicism. Consequently the nurses were the true heralds and apostles of Protestant principles—such principles being scurrilous abuse of