Hushabye Mountain is a famous song from the 1968 film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” The song was written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, and many artists including David Gilmour and Tony Bennett have sung it since. The song’s topic is about the peaceful and magical world of dreams. It encourages us to …
Nobody Loves Me, Everybody Hates Me, sometimes known as The Worm Song is a song with a self-explanatory title. The song describes the sentiment of feeling unloved and unwanted, and it is often used as a way of exploring feelings of loneliness and isolation. However, the worm-eating part gives this song a comedic angle. The …
Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme that has been around for hundreds of years. The exact origins of the rhyme are unknown, but it is thought to be based on a real person named Jack Horner who lived in the 16th century. The rhyme is likely to have originated as a way …
Ring a Ring o’ Roses is a traditional nursery rhyme and singing game. It is believed to have originated in England in the 18th century. The rhyme describes a group of children holding hands and dancing in a circle, with the lyrics describing the various actions they perform as they go. There has been much …
The historical tracings of The Three Little Kittens have led to Eliza Folen (1787-1860), an influential writer in the New England Unitarian Movement. This verse was published in her collection, New Nursery Songs for All Good Children published sometime around 1843. Folen herself has been said to describe this and other verses as “traditional” although …
In the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme, each of a number of London church bells calls out a short phrase. Several different interpretations of the text are possible, including onomatopoeia, regional/historical character, practices of children’s games, and the sexuality of a wedding night. In the onomatopoetic interpretation, the phrase attributed to each bell represents the …
Down Down Baby is a popular rhyme and has been in use since the middle of the twentieth century. It is also known as Roller Coaster and is designed to get people up and moving as it is a clapping game. We do not know who originally wrote the song, but it became famous when …
This is the House That Jack Built has been a popular rhyme in Britain for a long time, with many generations of children enjoying trying to learn the words by heart. It is specifically recognized as a cumulative tale that links one thing to the next and the next until the participants have to try …
Round and Round the Garden is a nursery rhyme that’s popular with children but is also often sung to babies. Similarly to This Little Piggy, Round and Round the Garden is a rhyme that has accompanying actions which result in a fun tickle. The rhyme explains the journey around a garden, likening the moves to …
Skip to My Lou is often sung as a children’s skipping song, and is popular in the playground. It originated in the US and was written in 1844. It wasn’t originally a song for children; it was used as a dance and melody to “steal” partners on the dance floor. With a fiddle providing the …
