"Little Boy Blue ""Little Boy Blue"" is a popular English-language nursery rhyme, often used in popular culture. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318. A common version of the rhyme is: <poem>Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. But where is the boy, who looks after the sheep? He's under a haystack, he's fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, he's sure to cry. </poem> The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in ""Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book"" (c. 1744),"
"the final act, Donald returns to the stage and quickly recites one line – ""Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn"" – and waits for the orphans to interrupt him. Yet as they seem well-behaved this time, Donald continues the recitation. But when he says ""Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?"" the orphans answer in unison ""Under the haystack fast asleep, you dope,"" causing Donald to lose his temper again. The orphans tie bricks, a plant, a fire extinguisher and eggs onto their balloons, float them over his head, and fire their slingshots. After being laughed by"
"he is a rustic oxherd, he points out that gods such as Apollo, Pan, Fauns and Adonis feed herds of cattle. He refers to his youthful beauty and musical skill. The boys thus sing until evening, when they have to leave the woods and take their bulls to their stables. Karakasis considers that an """"intermingling of long-established pastoral features with elegiac dispositions is to be read throughout this poem"""" and that """"both characters ... prove, by means of their song performance, unable to overcome their elegiac passion, despite their pastoral identity"""". The poem begins with a description of what Heyworth"
"locates Whoville; but Mother Kangaroo arrives with an army of monkeys, to imprison him and destroy the clover. When the Kangaroos fail to hear a chorus of Whos announcing their presence, monkeys attack Horton, who shouts at the Whos to prove themselves; but all their efforts fail until the Who child 'Jojo' shouts the syllable ""YOPP!"", breaking the sound barrier. The monkeys and Kangaroo apologize to Horton and promise to cooperate with him in protecting Whoville. Horton the Elephant Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book ""Horton Hatches the Egg"" and 1954 book ""Horton Hears a"
"cows for her per day. The prince her brother hears of it and comes for her, despite his stepmother's attempt to keep him away, by magic and by force of arms. Spindlestone Heugh (or Heughs) is a dolerite crag on the Great Whin Sill escarpment in the parish of Easington, Northumberland. The Spindlestone itself is a natural stone column standing out from the crag, which is also known as ""Bridle Rock"". According to a local legend, Child Wynd threw his horse's bridle over the rock before tackling the worm. The ballad describes a cave and a stone trough used by"
"Sam's nursery also become animated. This quite possibly represents Young Sam's imagination. The illustration of the nursery contains as an Easter egg a painting of the author himself, Terry Pratchett. Also of note is that the various other animals, which are mistaken for cows, are drawn in such a way that their outlines, combined with their surroundings, forms a cow shape. For example, the sheep has a tree's branches for horns and a rabbit chewing greenery for an udder, the horse has a pitchfork for horns and a chicken for an udder, etc. In this book Vimes bears a passing"
"do you know, I think her father was mistaken, and that she had.” “The Cow With Golden Horns” is a story of a farmer and his daughter Drusilla who have a cow with two gold horns. Drusilla and her father live in a small cottage, and Drusilla tends to the cow day and night so that they can sell her precious milk to those eager to buy it. One day, when Drusilla is watching the cow in the meadow, she dozes off and when she wakes the cow is nowhere to be found. Frantically looking for him, Drusilla crosses paths"
"meddlesome one. If not, it wil hang itself as a bloody coat at the crier's door. This corn demon also slaps people looking out of the window at night or takes part in the wild hunt, is also the mount of the devil. In heavy thunderstorm the ""Habergeiß"" bring cut grain from one field to another foreign field. The appearance of the ""Habergeiß"" causes bad luck. The corn will spoil, the cows will lose weight, give no milk and felt. When the cry of the ""Habergeiß"" is heard in autumn this means a long winter and lack of hay. Both"
"Hair-Raising Hare Hair-Raising Hare is a Warner Bros. ""Merrie Melodies"" cartoon, released in 1946. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. It stars Bugs Bunny and features the first appearance of Chuck Jones' imposing orange monster character, unnamed here, but in later cartoons named ""Rudolph"" and then ""Gossamer"". One dark night, as the camera pans across a dark, empty forest, Bugs is heard singing a stanza of ""Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart"" (introduced in ""Hollywood Canteen""). When the camera zooms in on Bugs' rabbit hole, he pokes up, dressed in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and tells"
"Robin Hood and the Tanner Robin Hood and the Tanner is Child ballad 126. It is a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad and one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero Robin Hood that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. A tanner, or leather-maker, named Arthur a Bland, has been summoned by a squire in Nottingham-shire. One summer morning, the formidable Arthur, oaken pikestaff on shoulder, sets off through Sherwood Forest to see the red deer there. Along the way, he encounters Robin Hood, who accuses"
"The Carnal and the Crane ""The Carnal and the Crane"" is Child Ballad 55 and a Christmas carol. It depicts a conversation between two birds—apparently, although the species of the ""carnal"" has never been identified with any certainty, though crow is generally assumed. A carnal tells a crane about the birth of Jesus: that he was born in a stable, of a virgin, and slept in a manger; that the Magi told King Herod of the birth, Herod said that if it were true, the cock on his table would revive and crow, and the cock did so; that Herod"
"the raven some. When he came to the cottage, he thanked the maiden for her advice, though he did not take it. He followed the cows and sat down when they came to pasture. There he heard music and listened to it. A boy ran to him and claimed his cows were in the corn; Covan said he could have driven them out in the time it took to come to him. Then the boy returned with the claim that dogs were worrying the cows; Covan said he could not have driven the dogs out in the time it took"
"Hector the Bulldog Hector the Bulldog is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound bulldog with gray fur (except in ""A Street Cat Named Sylvester"" and ""Greedy for Tweety"", where his fur is yellowish) and walks pigeon-toed. His face bears a perpetual scowl between two immense jowls. He wears a black collar with silver studs. Hector (or a prototype) first appeared in 1945's ""Peck Up Your Troubles"", where he foils Sylvester's attempts to get a woodpecker. He made a second appearance in ""A Hare Grows in Manhattan"","
"Hey Diddle Diddle ""Hey Diddle Diddle"" (also ""Hi Diddle Diddle"", ""The Cat and the Fiddle"", or ""The Cow Jumped Over the Moon"") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478. A common modern version of the rhyme is<poem>Hey Diddle Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.</poem> The rhyme is the source of the English expression ""over the moon"", meaning ""delighted, thrilled, extremely happy"". <score vorbis=""1""> \new Staff « \clef treble \key f"
"sheep which has been roasted during the day. It is thought the presentation of horns is associated with the custom of dressing up with horns as a symbol of cuckoldry (a cuckold is an old English term for a man whose wife has had an adulterous affair. It relates to the cuckoo, a bird which lays its eggs in another bird's nest). Centuries ago horn fairs were boisterous events where cuckoldry and seduction would not be unknown. The practice of dressing up with horns is alluded to in the traditional Horn Fair Song. The old saying ""All's fair at Horn"
"The Farmer and the Stork The Farmer and the Stork is one of Aesop's fables which appears in Greek in the collections of both Babrius and Aphthonius and has differed little in the telling over the centuries. The story relates how a farmer plants traps in his field to catch the cranes and geese that are stealing the seeds he has sown. When he checks the traps, he finds among the other birds a stork, who pleads to be spared because it is harmless and has taken no part in the theft. The farmer replies that since it has been"
"century version, the sheep is annoyed at having its wool pulled out. Samuel Croxall retitled the tale ""The Jackdaw and the Sheep"" in his 1722 collection and made the sheep complain of the bird's chattering. The accompanying illustration was imitated on the brownware pottery series issued by Wedgwood in 1775. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing changed the power relationship in his satirical rewriting titled ""The Sheep and the Swallow"". The sheep attempts to shake the bird off when it comes seeking wool for its nest. When the swallow complains that the sheep is ready enough to allow the shepherd to take all"
"The Leghorn Blows at Midnight The Leghorn Blows at Midnight is a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon directed by Robert McKimson and released by Warner Bros. in 1950. The cartoon also features Henery Hawk and the Barnyard Dawg. The title is a play upon the 1945 Jack Benny film ""The Horn Blows at Midnight"", a notable flop which Benny often poked rueful fun at on his radio show. This is only the second cartoon to feature ""Camptown Races"", which would eventually become Foghorn Leghorn's signature song, but he only hums the song in the first few moments; on two later occasions during"
"status...In ""Robin Hood"", Little John's performance of 'Sumer is icumen in' locates him socially as a contented, lower class male, a symbol of the romanticized ideal of the medieval peasant"" . The rendition sung in the climax of the 1973 British film ""The Wicker Man"" is a mixed translation by Anthony Shaffer : <poem> Sumer is Icumen in, Loudly sing, cuckoo! Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew; Sing, cuckoo! Ewe bleats harshly after lamb, Cows after calves make moo; Bullock stamps and deer champs, Now shrilly sing, cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo Wild bird are you;"
"singing outside. Frankie's renditions of ""It Can't Be Wrong"" by Dick Haymes and ""As Time Goes By"" (from ""Casablanca"", 1942) causes all the hens to swoon. Porky rushes to investigate. Soon, he is auditioning for a new crooner; those showing up are rooster caricatures of Nelson Eddy (""Shortnin' Bread""), Al Jolson (""September in the Rain""), Jimmy Durante (""Lullaby of Broadway""), Cab Calloway (""Minnie the Moocher"", ""Blues in the Night""), and Bing Crosby (""When My Dream Boat Comes Home""). Porky asks the Bing Crosby rooster (who introduced himself as ""The Old Groaner"") to be the crooner, provoking a competition with Frankie."
"The Crow and the Sheep The sheep and the crow is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 553 in the Perry Index. Only Latin versions of it remain. A sheep reproaches a crow that has perched on its back: 'If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.' To this the bird replies, 'I despise the weak and yield to the strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.' In Marie de France's 12th"
"and Nursery Songs"" (1870). There are several variants of the following joke: Some memoirs claim it was a real incident. Piggy In The Middle, a song by Beatles pastiche band The Rutles, also include the lyrics 'Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle'. The children's book ""Goodnight Moon"" features a bunny saying ""good night"" to everything around, including ""Goodnight cow jumping over the moon"". Hey Diddle Diddle ""Hey Diddle Diddle"" (also ""Hi Diddle Diddle"", ""The Cat and the Fiddle"", or ""The Cow Jumped Over the Moon"") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number"
"the land. When the sun comes up every member of the family has their chores to do. Little Henry goes to milk the cow, this is the first year they had a cow. His sister goes to feed the chickens, which are good layers, and the ones that aren't are good ""eaters"". Mrs. Brown tends the garden. There is little in the garden that will be sold, the narrator says, but much that will be eaten. Henry looks out into his field. He is not planting what he usually plants, but peanuts like the government man asked. The peanuts will"
"her wool, she replies that the shepherd is politer. The Crow and the Sheep The sheep and the crow is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 553 in the Perry Index. Only Latin versions of it remain. A sheep reproaches a crow that has perched on its back: 'If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.' To this the bird replies, 'I despise the weak and yield to the strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to"
"her stepdaughter, the peasant's daughter by his sheep-wife. The witch-stepmother tells her husband to slaughter the sheep before it runs away. He agrees, but her stepdaughter hears and runs to the sheep, lamenting. Her mother tells her not to eat anything made from her body but bury the bones. She does so, and a birch tree grows on the grave. The king gives a festival, inviting everyone, and the witch sends off the husband with her younger daughter, throws a potful of barleycorns in the hearth, and tells the older stepdaughter that if she does not pick barley corns from"
"but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says: <poem>Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? And for one blast of thy minikin mouth It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion. Boy Blue, until issue 81, was one of the main characters of the long-running comic book series ""Fables""."
"A Hare Grows in Manhattan A Hare Grows In Manhattan is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the ""Merrie Melodies"" series, released on March 22, 1947 and directed by Friz Freleng. It stars Bugs Bunny and a pack of dogs (the leader being a bulldog who resembles Hector). Unlike many cases where ""hare"" is a pun on ""hair"", the title here is a pun on a then-recent book which figures into the climax of the cartoon (however, it does also contain a punning reference to what hair does: grow). The cartoon begins with the voice of an apparent Hollywood gossip queen"
"bass lines. Of the song's three pigs, the only one directly identified is morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who amongst other things is described as a ""house-proud town mouse"". ""Sheep"" contains a modified version of Psalm 23, which continues the traditional ""The Lord is my shepherd"" with words like ""he maketh me to hang on hooks in high places and converteth me to lamb cutlets"". Towards the end of the song, the eponymous sheep rise up and kill the dogs, but later retire back to their homes. Wright played the song's introduction unaccompanied on the electric piano, but did not receive"
"""Haferbock"" and ""Habergeiß"" steal, hit or kill children. A corn spirit shaped as a bird is the ""Weizenvogel"" (""wheat bird"") or ""Rätschvogel"". The ""Getreidehahn"" or ""Troadhân"" (both ""grain rooster"") is a rooster-shaped corn demon who sits in corn field and waits for children to peck out their eyes. Other names are ""Arnhahn"", ""Erntehahn"", ""Bauthahn"" (all ""harvest rooster""), ""Herbsthahn"" (""autumn rooster"") ""Schnitthahn"" (""cut rooster""), ""Stoppelhahn"" (""stubble rooster""), ""Kornhahn"" (""corn rooster"") or ""Saathahn"" (""seed rooster""). The female equivalent of the ""Getreidehahn"" is the ""Erntehenne"" or ""Aarhenne"" (both ""harvest hen""). Other corn spirits are shaped as rabbits, deers or roe deers and also"
"a flock of ducks. He then smells magnolia trees and figures that he is in the south, and hops out of the basket using an umbrella as a parachute, while also managing to bring a suitcase that contains a lounging chair and a mint julep. In a tree, two hungry chicken hawks, ""Elvis"" and ""Pappy"", spot Foghorn Leghorn and announce that they will be having him for dinner. Following a pattern in previous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons, Foghorn soon realizes that the chicken hawks are not extending an invitation but want to ""eat"" him for dinner. Foghorn tries a series"
"The Sheep The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's book, ""Through the Looking-Glass"", the sequel to his book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."" The Sheep is first mentioned in the fifth chapter of ""Through the Looking-Glass"", ""Wool and Water"". The White Queen is talking to Alice, when she suddenly starts ""baa-ing"" and then seems to 'wrap herself in wool'. Alice figures out she is in a shop, and that The White Queen has turned into a sheep. The Sheep sits in her chair knitting as Alice looks around the shop. She"
"Swooner Crooner Swooner Crooner is a 1944 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The cartoon was nominated for the 1945 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), which it lost to the ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon ""Mouse Trouble"" which shared one of the 7 Oscars for the Cat & Mouse team. Porky Pig is the supervisor of the ""Flockheed Eggcraft Factory"", where dozens of hens lay eggs for the war effort (in this case, World War II). The hens suddenly get distracted from their egg laying when a handsome rooster named Frankie (who sings like Frank Sinatra) is heard"
"Robin Hood and the Shepherd Robin Hood and the Shepherd is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is one (#135) out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. While strolling through the forest one day, Robin Hood encounters a shepherd lying on the ground and demands to know what he has in his bottle and bag; when the shepherd refuses, Robin says he will"