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Traditional nursery rhymes Part 1

 
When was the last time you sang a nursery rhyme? It may not have been since your own childhood or you may just be a little bit rusty, so here are the words to a few favourites to help refresh your memory and to sing to your own kids.
When was the last time you sang a nursery rhyme?

It may not have been since your own childhood or you may just be a little bit rusty, so here are the words to a few favourites to help refresh your memory and to sing to your own kids.

Nursery rhymes are an important part of a child’s development, helping them to increase their vocabulary and develop their counting skills.

Check out 16 of the all time favourites
 

1. Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master, and one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
 

2. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.


3. Hey Diddle Diddle

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.


4. Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one.
The mouse ran down.
Hickory Dickory Dock.


5. Humpty Dumpty

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


6. I'm A Little Tea Pot

I'm a little tea pot short and stout.
Here's my handle. Here's my spout.
When I get all steamed up, hear me shout,
'Tip me over and pour me out!'


7. If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it, then you’ll really want to show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

...nod your head.
...stamp your feet.
..say “Ha ha”.
...do all four.


8. Incy Wincy Spider

Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed poor Incy out.
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain.
So, Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout again.
 

9. Lavender’s Blue

Lavender’s blue dilly dilly.
Lavender’s green.
When I am King dilly dilly,
You’ll be my Queen.

Who told you so dilly dilly?
Who told you so?
I told myself dilly dilly.
I told me so.

I love to dance dilly dilly.
I love to sing.
When I am Queen dilly dilly,
You’ll be my King.

Who told you so dilly dilly?
Who told you so?
I told myself dilly dilly.
I told me so.


10. Little Bo Peep

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn’t know where to find them.
Leave them alone and they will come home, bringing their tails behind them.

Little Bo Peep fell fast asleep and dreamt she heard them bleating,
But when she awoke she found it a joke for they were all still fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook determined to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, for they’d left their tails behind them.

It happened one day as Bo Peep did stray into a meadow near by.
There she spied their tails side by side all hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye and over the hillocks went rambling
And tried what she could as a shepherdess would to tack each again to its lambkin.
 

11. Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb it’s fleece was white as snow.

Everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went.
Everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day.
It 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 see a lamb at school.
 

12. Old King Cole

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three.

Now every fiddler had a fiddle so fine
And a very fine fiddle had he.
Oh there’s none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.
 

13. Old Macdonald

Old Macdonald had a farm, e i e i o.
And on that farm he had a piglet, e i e i o.
With an oink, oink here and an oink, oink there.
Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink, oink.

Old Macdonald had a farm, e i e i o.
And on that farm he had a duckling, e i e i o.
With a quack, quack here and a quack, quack there.
Here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack, quack.

Old Macdonald had a farm, e i e i o.
And on that farm he had a chicken, e i e i o.
With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there.
Here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck, cluck.

Old Macdonald had a farm, e i e i o.
And on that farm he had a lamb, e i e i o.
With a baa here and a baa there.
Here a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa, baa.

Old Macdonald had a farm, e i e i o.
 

14. Ring o’ Roses

Ring a ring o’ roses.
A pocket full of posies.
A tishoo a tishoo.
We all fall down.

The bird is on the steeple,
High above the people.
A tishoo a tishoo.
We all kneel down.

The King has sent his daughter
To fetch a pail of water.
A tishoo a tishoo.
We all bow down.
 

15. See-saw Margery Daw

See-saw Margery Daw
Johnny will have a new master.
He will work for a penny a day
Because he can’t work any faster.
 

16. This Little Pig

This little pig went to market.
This little pig stayed at home.
And this little pig had none.
And this little pig went whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, all the way home.

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Nursery rhymes are an important part of a child’s development, helping them to increase their vocabulary and develop their counting skills. Check out our list of popular kids nursery rhymes and learn the words to sing with your little one.

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