This is a list of nursery rhymes in English.
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| Title | Other titles | Place of Origin | Date First Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 'Aiken Drum' | Scotland | 1825 | |
| 'A Was an Apple Pie' | England | 1671 | |
| 'A Wise Old Owl' | USA? | 1915 | |
| 'A-Tisket, A-Tasket' | USA | c. 1879 | |
| 'As I was going by Charing Cross' | 'As I was going to Charing Cross' | England | 17th century? |
| 'As I was going to St Ives' | England | c. 1730 | |
| 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Billy Boy' | USA | 1930 | |
| 'Bingo' | England | c. 1780 | |
| 'Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea' | England | 1805 | |
| 'Bye, baby Bunting' | England | 1784 | |
| 'Cock a doodle doo' | England | 1765 | |
| 'Did You Ever See a Lassie?' | USA? Scotland? | 1895-1900 | |
| 'Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John' | England | 1797 | |
| 'Ding Dong Bell' | England | 1580 | |
| 'Doctor Foster' | England | 1844 | |
| 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe' | Britain or USA | 1888 | |
| 'Eeper Weeper' | 'Heeper Peeper' | England | late 19th early 20th century |
| 'Five little speckled frogs' | USA? | 20th century | |
| 'Frog Went A-Courting' | 'A frog he would a-wooing go' | England | 1611 |
| 'Georgie Porgie' | England | c. 1850 | |
| 'Girls and Boys Come Out To Play' | 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' | England | 1708 |
| 'Goosey Goosey Gander' | England | 1784 | |
| 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' | 'Mulberry Bush' | England | c. 1850 |
| 'Hey Diddle Diddle' | England | c. 1765 | |
| 'Hickory Dickory Dock' | 'Hickety Dickety Dock' | England | c. 1744 |
| 'Hot Cross Buns' | England | 1797 | |
| 'How Many Miles to Babylon?' | Scotland | 1801 | |
| 'Humpty Dumpty' | England | 1803 | |
| 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride' | 'If wishes were horses' | Britain | 1605 |
| 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell' | England | 1680 | |
| 'I Had a Little Nut Tree' | England | 1789 | |
| 'I Love Little Pussy' | England | 1830 | |
| 'It's Raining, It's Pouring' | USA | 1939 | |
| 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' | 'Eensy Weensy Spider' | USA | 1910 |
| 'Jack and Jill' | England | c. 1765 | |
| 'Jackanory' | England | c. 1760 | |
| 'Jack Be Nimble' | England | c. 1815 | |
| 'Jack Sprat' | England | 1639 | |
| 'Ladybird Ladybird' | 'Ladybug Ladybug' | Britain | c. 1744 |
| 'Lavender's Blue' | 'Lavender Blue' | England | late 17th century |
| 'Little Arabella Miller' | USA? | 20th century | |
| 'Little Bo Peep' | England | c. 1805 | |
| 'Little Boy Blue' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Little Jack Horner' | England | 1725 | |
| 'Little Miss Muffet' | England | 1805 | |
| 'Little Poll Parrot' | England | 1853 | |
| 'Little Robin Redbreast' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Little Tommy Tucker' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'London Bridge Is Falling Down' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Lucy Locket' | England or USA | 1842 | |
| 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' | USA | 1830 | |
| 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Matthew, Mark, Luke and John' | "Black Paternoster" | Britain | 1656 |
| 'Monday's Child' | England | 1838 | |
| 'Needles and Pins' | England | 1843 | |
| 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' | USA | 1737 | |
| 'Nuts in May' | 'Gathering Nuts in May' | England | 1894 |
| 'Old King Cole' | England | 1708-1709 | |
| 'Old McDonald Had a Farm' | USA | 1917 | |
| 'Old Mother Hubbard' | England | 1805 | |
| 'On Top of Old Smoky' | USA | 1951 | |
| 'One for Sorrow' | Britain | c. 1780 | |
| 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe' | England or USA | 1805 | |
| 'One, Two, Three, Four, Five' | England | c. 1765 | |
| 'Oranges and Lemons' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man' | "Pat-a-cake", "patty-cake" or "pattycake" | England | 1698 |
| 'Pease Porridge Hot' | 'Peas Porridge Hot' or 'Pease Pudding Hot' | England | c. 1765 |
| 'Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater' | USA? | c. 1825 | |
| 'Peter Piper' | England | 1813 | |
| 'Polly Put the Kettle On' | England | 1803 | |
| 'Poor Mary' | 'Poor Jenny' or 'Poor Sally' | England | 1880s |
| 'Pop Goes the Weasel' | England | 1850s | |
| 'Pretty Little Dutch Girl' | USA | 1940s | |
| 'The Queen of Hearts' | Britain | 1782 | |
| 'Pussy Cat Pussy Cat' | Britain | 1805 | |
| 'Rain Rain Go Away' | England | 1659 | |
| 'Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross' | England | 1784 | |
| 'Ring a Ring o' Roses' | 'Ring Around the Rosie' | England | 1881 |
| 'Rock-a-bye Baby' | England | c. 1765 | |
| 'Roses are red' | England | 1784 | |
| 'Round and round the garden' | Britain | 1940s | |
| 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' | USA | 1852 | |
| 'Rub A Dub Dub' | England | 1798 | |
| 'See Saw Margery Daw' | Britain | c. 1765 | |
| 'Simple Simon' | England | 1764 | |
| 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Solomon Grundy' | Britain | 1842 | |
| 'Star Light, Star Bright' | USA | late 19th century | |
| 'Sticks and Stones' | Britain | before 1872 | |
| 'Taffy was a Welshman' | England | c. 1780 | |
| 'Ten Little Indians' | USA | 1868 | |
| 'The Farmer in the Dell' | 'The Farmer's in his Den' | Germany | 1820 |
| 'The Grand Old Duke of York' | 'The Noble Duke of York' | England | 1642 |
| 'The Lion and the Unicorn' | England | 1708-1709 | |
| 'The Muffin Man' | England | c. 1820 | |
| 'There Was a Crooked Man' | Britain | 1842 | |
| 'There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' | England | 1794 | |
| 'There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill' | England | 1714 | |
| 'Three Wise Men of Gotham' | England | c. 1765 | |
| 'This Is The House That Jack Built' | England | 1755 | |
| 'This Little Piggy' | 'This Little Pig' | England | c. 1760 |
| 'This Old Man' | England | 1906 | |
| 'Three Blind Mice' | England | 1609 | |
| 'Three Little Kittens' | USA | 1853 | |
| 'Tinker, Tailor' | England | 1695 | |
| 'To market, to market' | England | 1611 | |
| 'Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son' | Britain | 1795 | |
| 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee' | Britain | 1805 | |
| 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' | Britain | 1806 | |
| 'Two Little Dickie Birds' | Britain | c. 1765 | |
| 'Wee Willie Winkie' | Scotland | 1841 | |
| 'What Are Little Boys Made Of?' | 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' | Britain | c. 1820 |
| 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' | England | c. 1744 | |
| 'Wind The Bobbin Up' | England | 1890s |
Famous quotes containing the words nursery rhymes, list of, list, nursery and/or rhymes:
“Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.”
—Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944)
“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
“Always polite, fastidiously dressed in a linen duster and mask, he used to leave behind facetious rhymes signed “Black Bart, Po—8,” in mail and express boxes after he had finished rifling them.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)