Hickory, dickory Dock

[Sessrin]

Hickory Dickory Dock the Mouse ran up the clock
the clock struck one, the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock

how many nursery rhymes, etc. can you remember or think

this should be interesting:alien:

[Aunty-lion]

I had a little beetle
I called him Theobald James
But Nursey says it's nasty, Nursey says it's wicked, Nursey says it's cruel to call a little beetle names.
I said to my beetle, "Oh Mr Beetle please, I wish I was a beetle more than anything far!"
And Nursey says he answered,
Nursey says he shouted,
"You wish you were a beetle, you little s***, you are."

My papa used to tell me this when I was but a wee girlie.

[Sessrin]

that's odd, never heard of that one

jack be nimble
jack be quick
jack jumped over the candlestick

[Aunty-lion]

that's odd, never heard of that one

jack be nimble
jack be quick
jack jumped over the candlestick

I think it may actually be an Ogden Nash poem...

[Niamh]

Ring a ring a rosy
a pocket full of posy
a tissue a tissue
we all fall down.

(i know its a verse about the plague but it was a nursery rhyme to us growing up. dont even think i wrote it out properly!)

[Pendragon]

Tweedle-dee-dum and Tweedl-dee-dee
Resolved to have a battle;
Because Tweedle-dee-dum said Tweedl-dee-dee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew by a monsterous crow
As large as a tar barrel;
Which frightened both our heroes so
They quite forgot their quarrel!

Was written by Lewis Carroll but usually included in Nursery Rhymes.

[Madhuri]

Ring a ring a rosy
a pocket full of posy
a tissue a tissue
we all fall down.

(i know its a verse about the plague but it was a nursery rhyme to us growing up. dont even think i wrote it out properly!)

I know of this one Niamh :D

The one that I can remember is --

Twinkle, Twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky

I dont remember any further :D

[Niamh]

I know of this one Niamh :D

The one that I can remember is --

Twinkle, Twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky

I dont remember any further :D

i think its the first two lines repeated

[Nightshade]

Little Tommy Tucker
sings for his supper
what shall we give him?
Brown bread and butter
How will he cut it without a knife?
How will he be married without a wife?


Actually I can rember dozens because I have a habit of singing/murmmuring them half under my breath without even noticing when Im annoyed and when the youngest sister was tiny I once spent over an hour just saying nursery rhymes to get her to sleep and you couldnt say the same one twice :D

[Pendragon]

Hummm. My mind, as many of you know, is full of odd bits of information...

Tom, Tom, The Piper's son,
Stole a pig and away he run!
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom ran howling down the street!

(The verb in the last sentence depends on which version of nursery rhymes you have read. It varies.)

Georgie Porgie, Pudden' and Pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry!
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away!

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell!
The reason why, I cannot tell.
But this I know, and know full well:
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell!

[Pensive]

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
While Jill came tumbling after!

Baby Baby
Yes Mama
Eating sugar?
No Mama
Telling lies?
No Mama
Open your mouth!
Ha ha ha!

Little Miss Muffet
She sat on a tuffet...
I don't remember the rest...

Baba black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir - three bags full
One for a Master, one for a Dane
One for a little boy who lives down the lane

The time to be happy is now
And the place to be happy is here
And the way to be happy is to make someone happy...
I don't remember the rest.

Oh and I remember many Urdu nursery rhymes...

[Nightshade]

Tom tom the pipers song
he learned to play when he was young
But all the tune that he could play
was over the hill and far away

Over the hill and a great way off the wind shall take my top'noch off

Now Tom he did play with such skill
he please both boys and girls

somthing somthing somthing

This song is really longt and Im a bit fuzzy on it he ends up playing and because people cant stay still an old woman starts dancing knocks over a pale of milk then he runs away over the hills and far away to avoid getting beaten.

[Madhuri]

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
While Jill came tumbling after!

Baby Baby
Yes Mama
Eating sugar?
No Mama
Telling lies?
No Mama
Open your mouth!
Ha ha ha!

Baba black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir - three bags full
One for a Master, one for a Dane
One for a little boy who lives down the lane


I know these three too :D

Another one that I recall is --

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

EDIT -- one more :D

Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocketful of posies.
Tisha! Tisha!
We all fall down

[Hyacinth42]

Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocketful of posies.
Tisha! Tisha!
We all fall down
and

Ring a ring a rosy
a pocket full of posy
a tissue a tissue
we all fall down.

I thought it was:

Ring around the rosy
Pocketful of posies
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down

Also:
London bridge is falling down,
falling down, falling down
London bridge is falling down
My fair lady

I believe that there are a whole bunch of other verses to it, but I can't think of them

And:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a Corner
Eating a Christmas Pie
He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,
And said, What a good boy am I!

[kilted exile]

Ok, dont think this has been mentioned yet:

Jack Spratt could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
So then betwixt the pair o' them
They licked the platter clean

Does anyone else have the Oxford Encyclopedia of nursery rhymes? It is a great resource.

[Pensive]

I know these three too :D

Another one that I recall is --

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

EDIT -- one more :D

Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocketful of posies.
Tisha! Tisha!
We all fall down

I used to love this Humpty Dumpty one in my childhood. Ummm...well I would still like to sing it out aloud. :D

[Pensive]

Hickory Dickory Dock the Mouse ran up the clock
the clock struck one, the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock

how many nursery rhymes, etc. can you remember or think

this should be interesting:alien:

My Nana Aba (mother's father) used to sing to me its Urdu translation very often when I was little. I can never forget it! :p

[Nightshade]

Multiplication is vexation
division is just as bad
the rule of three preplexes me
and Practice drives me mad.


( I had that wrote that inside my maths book when ever I got grumpy always made me :D)

[Bii]

Well, with 2 young 'uns I've had to remember my nursery rhymes so here's some which haven't been posted yet:

Sing a song of sixpence
a pocketful of rye
four and twenty blackbirds
baked in a pie
when the pie was opened
the birds began to sing,
now wasn't that a dainty dish
to set before the King.
The King was in his counting house
counting out his money
the Queen was in the parlour
eating bread and honey
the Maid was in the garden
hanging out the clothes
when down came a blackbird
and pecked off her nose



Red and yellow
and pink and green
orange and purple and blue
I can sing a rainbow
sing a rainbow
sing a rainbow too

Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
the cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun
and the dish ran away with the spoon.

Mary Mary quite contrary
how does your garden grow
with silver bells and cockle shells
and pretty maids all in a row

[Bii]

[I]Little Miss Muffet
She sat on a tuffet...
I don't remember the rest...


it goes,

Little Miss Muffet
sat on her tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
who sat down beside her
and frightened Miss Muffet away

[Pensive]

it goes,

Little Miss Muffet
sat on her tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
who sat down beside her
and frightened Miss Muffet away

Yes, exactly! :D

[Nightshade]

OH dear what can the matter be ?
Oh dear what can the matter be
Johnnys so long at the fair
He promised to buy me a pair of blue ribbions
he promised to buy me a pair blue ribbions
hepromised to buy me a pair of blue ribbions to tie up my bonny brown Hair

and then ther was my Opa's(grandad) version:

Oh dear what can the matter be?
Three old ladies stuck in a laventry
they were there from Monday to Saterday
Nobody knew they were there.

Another one my Opa used to sing:

Mary Ellen at the pawn shop door
with a bundle in her hand and a bundle on the floor
She as'ed for four and sixpence
theyd only give her four
so she knocked the blooming handle off the pawn shop door.

[AdoreroDio]

How about-

Peter, Peter Pumpkin eater
had a wife and couldn't keep her
put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her forever well

[Nightshade]

And here is a Gordie one to go with the liverpudlian Mary Ellen

The Laptern worm he grew and grew
To such an awful size
with great big teeth an' great big feet and
Great big Googly eyes.

Humm doesnt work without the accent.

[Nightshade]

I had alittle nut tree
Nothing would it bear
but a silver nut meg
and a golden pear.

The king of spains daughter came to visit me
and all for the sake of my little nut tree

I skipped over water
I dance over sea
and all the little birds
Couldnt catch me.

:D

[Pendragon]

More from my memories:

If all the world were paper,
And all the seas were ink;
If all the trees were bread and cheese,
What would we do for a drink?

One misty, moisty morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
I chanced to meet an old man,
Clothed all in leather.
He began to compliment,
And I began to grin:
A “How do you do?”
A “How do you do?”
And a “How do you do again?”

Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such in all of your life,
As three blind mice?

Cross my heart, I quote from memory!

[Schokokeks]

Twinkle, Twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky

I dont remember any further :D
Oh, I think I can help here :):

When the blazing sun is gone
When He nothing shines upon
Then you show your little light
Twinkle twinkle all the night

And the travellor in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
Could not see which way to go
If you did not twinkle so.

First thing my children'll have to learn :D.

[Niamh]

Heres another one but i think its sung more than anything

Three little angels all dressed in white
tried to get to heaven at the end of a kite
but the kite it was broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

two little angels all dressed in white
tried to get to heaven at the end of a kite
but the kite it was broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

one little angel all dressed in white
tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite
but the kite it was broken and the angel fell
couldnt get to heaven so they all fell to...

Three little aliens all dressed in geen
tried to get to heaven in a flying machine
but the machine it got broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heave so they all went to...

two little aliens all dressed in geen
tried to get to heaven in a flying machine
but the machine it got broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

One little alien all dressed in green
tried to get to heaven in a flying machine
but the machine it got broken and the alien feel
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

Three little devils all dressed in red
tried to get to heaven from the end of a bed
but the bed it got broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

two little devils all dressed in red
tried to get to heaven from the end of a bed
but the bed it got broken and they all fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to...

one little devil all dressed in red
tried to get to heaven from the end of a bed
but the bed it got broken and the devil fell
they couldnt get to heaven so they all went to hell!:D

[snickle211]

hello, i'm new on here and was wondering if anyone could tell me how this poem goes. four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie...

[hockeychick8792]

Snickle it is up there in another post if you wanna look


Okay!Let me think!

Little bunny Fu-Fu hopping through the forest
Sweeping up the field mice and bopping them on the head!

Along came a fairy and she said...
"Little Bunny Fu-Fu you better stop or I'll turn you in to a stool"

Later that day...
Little Bunny Fu-Fu hopping throught he forest sweeping up he field mice and bopping them on the head.
The fairy came "I am only giving you one more chance if you do that again I'll turn you into a stool!"

Later that evening...

Little Bunny Fu-Fu hoppping through the forest sweeping up the field mice and bopping them on the head...

POOOOF

Little bunny Fu-Fu will never be seen sweeping up the field mice, because he is now the field mice's stool.

[Pendragon]

hello, i'm new on here and was wondering if anyone could tell me how this poem goes. four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie...

Sing a song of sixpence, pockets full of rye
Fouur and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing
Wasn't that a danity dish to set before the King!

The King was in his counting-house, counting out his money;
The Queen was in the parlor, eating bread and honey;
The maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes,
Down came a little dickie-bird and snipped off her nose!

Best of my recall.

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[ampoule]

The teensy weensy spider went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
Now the teesy weensy spider goes up the spout again.

Some people use itsy bitsy