| Introduction |
| Acknowledgements |
Nursery Rhymes |
An Apple a Day |
| As I Was Going by Charing Cross |
| As I Was Going to St Ives |
| Baa, Baa, Black Sheep |
| Bessy Bell and Mary Gray |
| The Big Ship Sails on the Ally-Ally-Oh |
| The Blind Men and the Elephant |
| Bobby Shafto |
| Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play |
| Christmas Is Coming |
| The Cutty Wren |
| Ding, Dong, Bell |
| Doctor Foster |
| Elsie Marley |
| Flour of England |
| For Want of a Nail |
| Frère Jacques |
| A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go |
| Georgie Porgie |
| Good King Arthur |
| Goosie, Goosie Gander |
| The Grand Old Duke of York |
| Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark |
| Hector Protector |
| Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush |
| Hey Diddle Diddle |
| Hickory, Dickory, Dock |
| Higgledy, Piggledy, My Black Hen |
| Hot Cross Buns |
| The House That Jack Built |
| Humpty Dumpty |
| I Had a Little Nut Tree |
| In Marble Walls as White as Milk |
| Jack and Jill |
| Jack, Be Nimble |
| Jack Sprat |
| Ladybird, Ladybird |
| The Lion and the Unicorn |
| Little Bo Peep |
| Little Boy Blue |
| Little Jack Horner |
| Little Miss Muffet |
| Little Polly Flinders |
| Little Tommy Tucker |
| London Bridge Is Falling Down |
| London’s Burning |
| Lucy Locket |
| The Man in the Moon |
| The Man of Thessaly |
| Mary Had a Little Lamb |
| Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary |
| Monday’s Child |
| Needles and Pins |
| Old King Cole |
| Old Mother Hubbard |
| Oranges and Lemons |
| The Owl and the Pussycat |
| Polly Put the Kettle On |
| Poor Old Robinson Crusoe |
| Pop Goes the Weasel |
| Punch and Judy |
| Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat |
| The Queen of Hearts |
| Rain, Rain, Go Away |
| Red Sky at Night |
| Remember, Remember the Fifth of November |
| Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross |
| Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses |
| Rock-a-Bye, Baby |
| Rub-a-Dub-Dub |
| See-Saw, Margery Daw |
| Simple Simon |
| Sing a Song of Sixpence |
| Solomon Grundy |
| Taffy Was a Welshman |
| There Was a Crooked Man |
| There Was a Little Girl |
| There Was a Little Guinea Pig |
| There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe |
| Three Acres of Land |
| Three Blind Mice |
| Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son |
| Turn Again, Whittington |
| Tweedledum and Tweedledee |
| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star |
| Wee Willie Winkie |
| What Are Little Boys Made Of? |
| Who Killed Cock Robin? |
Traditional Songs and Anthems |
Amazing Grace |
| God Save the Queen |
| Good King Wenceslas |
| The Hokey Cokey |
| I Saw Three Ships |
| Jerusalem |
| The Miller of Dee |
| The Skye Boat Song |
| The Star-Spangled Banner |
| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Sources |
| Index |