Round and Round the Garden

Round and round the garden is a nursery rhyme for infants and toddlers. Usualy it is accompanied by fingerplay, such as touching and tickling. 
Rhyme.
The version given by "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" is:
This rhyme is probably fairly recent. 
Origins.
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. Since teddy bears were not common before the twentieth century it is likely fairly recent in its current form. Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there":