"Roses Are Red ""Roses Are Red"" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic ""The Faerie Queene"" (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6): A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's"
"the 16th century. The nursery rhyme has been referenced several times in popular culture. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (1744) with"
"Sweet Violets ""Sweet Violets"" is a classic example of a ""censored rhyme"", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with an unexpected word which segues into the next couplet or chorus. For example, the first couplets go: There once was a farmer who took a young miss In back of the barn where he gave her a... Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs And told her that she had such beautiful... Manners that suited a girl ""[etc.]"" The chorus is taken nearly verbatim from the song ""Sweet Violets"" by Joseph Emmet, from his 1882 play ""Fritz Among"
"Lavender's Blue ""Lavender's Blue"" (sometimes called ""Lavender Blue"") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts. There are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many variations of each verse. A typical version, described by James Halliwell in 1849, is: The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679, under"
"Orchard Halliwell was a notable collector of English nursery rhymes. Some of the best known nursery rhymes from Britain are ""Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"", ""Roses Are Red"", ""Jack and Jill"", ""Cock a doodle doo"", ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"", ""The Grand Old Duke of York"", ""London Bridge Is Falling Down"", ""Hey Diddle Diddle"", ""Three Blind Mice"", ""Little Miss Muffet"", ""Pat-a-cake"", ""Pop Goes the Weasel"", ""The Queen of Hearts"", ""Polly Put the Kettle On"", ""Peter Piper"", ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"", ""Hickory Dickory Dock"", ""One for Sorrow"", ""This Old Man"", ""Simple Simon"", ""Old Mother Hubbard"", ""Little Bo Peep"", ""Sing a Song of"
"reached # 3 on the Billboard magazine charts. It has also been recorded by Mitch Miller and the Gang, Jane Turzy, and Judy Lynn. The song (in all its versions, combined) reached #1 on the Cash Box magazine best-seller chart. Numerous folk versions exist in which the implied lyrics are more risque. Copyright 1951 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. by Cy Coben and Charles Grean Sweet Violets ""Sweet Violets"" is a classic example of a ""censored rhyme"", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with an unexpected word which segues into the next couplet or chorus."
"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush ""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 same tune is also used for ""Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up"" and ""Nuts in May"". A variant is used for ""The Wheels on the Bus"". The most common modern version of the rhyme is: <score>{ \key g \major \time 6/8 g'8 g' g' g'4 b'8 | d""4 b'8 g'4 g'8 | a'4 a'8 a'4 g'8 | fis'4"
"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),"
"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),"
"part of the nursery rhyme. Early versions took the form: By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, ""Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes"" (London, 1919) to: A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took Twentieth-century versions of this verse include: As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six-line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of ""aabccb"" and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if"
"Nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and most popular rhymes date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", were published before 1744. Publisher John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother"
"Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) ""Jack and Jill"" (sometimes ""Jack and Gill"", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies this tune and its variations as number 10266. The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century and exists with different numbers of verses each with a number of variations. Only a few more verses have been added to the rhyme, including a version with a total of 15 stanzas in a chapbook of the 19th century. The dab verse, probably added as part of these extensions, has become a standard"
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (1744) with the following lyrics: <poem>Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver"
"day the slipper fits, then you see the love in his eyes,"" one of Belle's lines is ""So the story goes, never die the rose...,"" Pocahontas' primary line being ""The colors of the wind will lead my heart right back to you..."" Jasmine's line being ""There's a whole new world waiting there for us,"" and Mulan's primary line being ""Reflections in a diamond sky come shining on through"" even though the rest of the princesses sing with her, and finally Ariel and Aurora have the same primary line (""Romance Will Always Be So New And Love Will Save The Day"")"
"Variations on a Nursery Tune (Dohnányi) The Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25, is a piece for piano and orchestra by Ernő Dohnányi. It is subtitled ""For the enjoyment of humorous people and for the annoyance of others"". Written in 1914, it captures the spirit of Romanticism, and manages to delight and enthrall in its sparkling piano writing and lush orchestral textures, and its wit in the treatment of the theme – the French nursery song ""Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman"", otherwise known as ""Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"". Like Dohnányi, Mozart also wrote variations on this nursery tune (K. 265/300e)."
"aired on June 22, 2004, but it didn't make the final list. The appearance of ""Lavender Blue"" in the Disney film sparked a revival of interest in the song. Several versions of the song have been released in the US and the UK. Lavender's Blue ""Lavender's Blue"" (sometimes called ""Lavender Blue"") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts. There are"
"Little Robin Redbreast ‘Little Robin Redbreast’ is an English language nursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20612. This rhyme is one of the most varied English nursery rhymes, probably because of its crude early version. Common modern versions include: and: The earliest versions of this rhyme reveal a more basic humour. The earliest recorded is from ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (c. 1744), which has the lyric: By the late eighteenth century the last line was being rendered 'And wag went his"
"was recorded as early as 1875 and is apparently older than that. It was quoted by John D. Rockefeller in 1915 and is frequently misattributed to Edward Hersey Richards and William R. Cubbage. During World War II, the United States army used the rhyme on a poster with the tweaked ending, ""Soldier... be like that old bird!"" with the caption ""Silence means security."" A Wise Old Owl ""A Wise Old Owl"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd Ed. of 1997, as"
"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"
"Bells, And Cockle Shells, And so my garden grows.</poem> Several printed versions of the 18th century have the lyrics: <poem>Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells, Sing cuckolds all in a row.</poem> The last line has the most variation including: Cowslips all in arow [sic]. and With lady bells all in a row. Like many nursery rhymes, it has acquired various historical explanations. These include: No proof has been found that the rhyme was known before the 18th century, while Mary I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots, were contemporaries in"
"Lowell Mason set the nursery rhyme to a melody adding repetition in the verses: <poem> Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went, Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day He followed her to school one day Which was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, laugh and play, It made the children laugh and play, To"
"plum candy"". Another 21st-century take on the ""sugar plum"" instructs home cooks to combine dried fruits and almonds with honey and aromatic seeds (anise, fennel, caraway, cardamom), form this mixture into balls, then coat in sugar or shredded coconut. Sugar plums are widely associated with Christmas, through cultural phenomena such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in ""The Nutcracker"" (Composed by Tchaikovsky, 1892), as well as the line ""Visions of sugar plums danced in their heads,"" from Clement C. Moore's poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" (1823), better known as ""'Twas the Night Before Christmas"". In the children's board game Candy"
"a girl named Nell keeping the singer's bed warm. Here is the first of ten verses: <poem> Lavender's green, diddle, diddle, You must love me, diddle, diddle, I heard one say, diddle, diddle, That you and I, diddle, diddle, </poem> Both Waltz (citing Eloise Hubbard Linscott) and Halliwell have noted the song's association with Twelfth Night and the choosing of the king of queen of the festivities of that holiday. ""Lavender's Blue"" emerged as a children's song in ""Songs for the Nursery"" in 1805 in the form: <poem> </poem> Similar versions appeared in collections of rhymes throughout the 19th century."
"Lucy Locket ""Lucy Locket"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19536. Common modern versions include: Another version The song shares its tune with ""Yankee Doodle"" which emerged in North America in the mid-eighteenth century, but it is not clear which set of lyrics emerged first. The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842, but there is evidence that it was popular in Britain and America at least in the early nineteenth century. Various persons have been identified with Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. Halliwell suggested that they were"
"standing in a circle and holding hands, followed by skipping in one direction as they sing the tune that accompanies these verses. As the word ""collapsed"" in the second verse is sung, the group usually falls down into a heap. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush ""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 same tune is also used for ""Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up"" and ""Nuts in May"". A variant"
"my Jubilee!"" ""For when pale flutes and oboes play,"" ""To sadness I become a prey;"" ""Give me the violets and the May,"" ""But no gray skies for me."" </poem> For Sketch No. 2, ""Noël"", <poem> ""Through the soft, calm moonlight comes a sound;"" ""A mother lulls her babe, and all around"" ""The gentle snow lies glistening;"" ""On such a night the Virgin Mother mild"" ""In dreamless slumber wrapped the Holy Child,"" ""While angel-hosts were listening."" </poem> For Sketch No. 3. ""Hobgoblin"", words from Shakespeare, <poem> ""That shrewd and knavish sprite"" ""Called Robin Goodfellow."" </poem> For Sketch No. 4, ""A Vagrom"
"Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater ""Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497. Common modern versions include: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well.</poem> The first surviving version of the rhyme was published in ""Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry,"
"I Had a Little Nut Tree 'I Had a Little Nut Tree' is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3749. The most common modern version is: <poem>I had a little nut tree, Nothing would it bear, But a silver nutmeg And a golden pear; The King of Spain's daughter Came to visit me, And all for the sake Of my little nut tree. Her dress was made of crimson, Jet black was her hair, She asked me for my nutmeg And my golden pear. I said, ""So fair a princess Never did"
"Pretty Little Dutch Girl ""Pretty Little Dutch Girl"" is a children's nursery rhyme, clapping game and jump-rope rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12986. The lyrics of the song vary considerably. British versions of this rhyme differ significantly, perhaps because many of the allusions in the rhyme were unknown to British children at the time. Common versions include: Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 3 Variation 4 Variation 5 (Western Canada, 1960s) Variation 6 Variation 7 Variation 8 Variation 9 (Northwest England, 2010s) I am a pretty little Dutch girl, As pretty as can be, And all"
"in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: <poem style=""margin-left:24px> Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, ""What a good boy am I!""</poem> It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection ""Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle"", which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and"
"raise lots of<br> Sweet violets<br> Sweeter than the roses<br> Covered all over from head to toe<br> Covered all over with sweet violets<br> The girl told the farmer that he'd better stop<br> And she call her father and he called a<br> Taxi and got there before very long<br> 'Cause some one was doin' his little girl<br> Right for a change and so that's why he said<br> If you marry her son, you're better off single<br> 'Cause it's always been my belief<br> Marriage will bring a man nothing but<br> Sweet Violets<br> Sweeter than the roses<br> Covered all over from head to toe<br>"
"any language. Soon she grew very weary and sick. Her father sent for the doctor but Princess Fernanda stopped him, for she knew more than he. One day, Fernanda wandered by the sea and came across a bird and a dog, both of whom appeared to be happy. When the Princess asked them what made them happy, she was not satisfied with their answers, such as, “The sky is so blue, and the fields are so green” and “plenty to eat, and a soft cushion to rest upon”. When the Princess arrived home, still distraught, she asked Doris, her favourite"
"Nuts in May (rhyme) ""Nuts in May"" is a nursery rhyme often sung as a game with the aim of pairing a boy and girl from within the singers. It has a Roud index number of 6308. Replace ""[name]"" by a boy's and a girl's name from within the group singing and select between him/her according to the gender of the first selected person. Some versions replace the phrase ""On a cold and frosty morning,"" with ""so early in the morning"" The rhyme is first recorded by Alice Gomme in ""The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland"" (1894-8). It"