Favourite childhood nursery rhyme?

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Just been inspired by the 'Bands that EVERYONE loves' post. So was wondering what was your fave rhyme from childhood. My top two are/were 'Ring around the Rose'and the "Oranges and Lemons" say the Bells of St Clements one. I think they are my faves for the climatic endings.

― fractal (fractal), Friday, 20 September 2002 02:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hate nursery rhymes. Hate hate hate. Except "Frere Jacques", obviously. But that's a round innit?

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've recently rediscovered these, thanks to being a Daddy, and though it didn't register much as a kid I now think 'I had a little nut tree' as absolutely exquisite. lovely words, lovely tune, a little pearl.

― jon (jon), Friday, 20 September 2002 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does the theme from Green Acres count?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 07:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

twenty years pass...

i thought of 'row row row your boat' the other day for some reason and realized it might be the most profoundly otm song i've ever heard.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:14 (ten months ago) link

it says merrily 4 x in a row. banger.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:17 (ten months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnk1CvASsak

― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:18 (ten months ago) link

this absolute cracker was on one of the playlists my kid was listening to at some point:

Ding Dong Bell

Ding dong bell
Pussy's in the well
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Flynn
Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout
What a naughty boy was that
To try to drown poor pussy cat
Who ne'er did any harm
But killed the mice in
His father's barn

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:24 (ten months ago) link

I love the meme I saw a while back that said:

"Imagine writing a banger that bops so hard that no one even attempts another song about hot cross buns ever again"

― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 22:57 (ten months ago) link

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