Popular rhymes

Children's nursery rhymes are traditional verses chanted to infants by adults as an initiation into rhyme and verbal rhythm. Most are hundreds of years old, and derive from songs, proverbs, riddles, ballads, street cries, and other kinds of composition originally intended for adults, which have become almost meaningless outside their original contexts.

All Around the Mulberry Bush
The Ants Go Marching
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Cobbler, Cobbler
The Cock Doth Crow
Come to the Window
Dickery, Dickery Dare
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
The Farmer in the Dell
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
Fiddle Dee Dee, Fiddle Dee Dee
Incy Wincy Spider
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
This Little Pig Went to Market
Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie
Good Night, Sleep Tight
These are Grandma's Spectacles
The Hart, He Loves the High Wood
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush

Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen
Hot Cross Buns
This is the House that Jack Built
Hokey Pokey
Humpty Dumpty
Hush-a-Bye, Baby
Hush, Little Baby
I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell
I had a Little Nut Tree
I Love Little Pussy
I Scream, You Scream
If All the World Were Paper
It's Raining, It's Pouring
I've Been Workin' on the Railroad
Jack and Jill
Jack Be Nimble
Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat
This Old Man
Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree

Ladybug! Ladybug!
Little Bo Peep
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Little Jack Horner
London Bridge is Falling Down
Mary had a Little Lamb
Old King Cole
Old Mother Hubbard
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Polly, Put the Kettle On
Pop! Goes the Weasel
Pussycat, Pussycat
Ring, Around the Roses'
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Rub-a-Dub-Dub'

See, Saw, Marjorie Daw
She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Simple Simon
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Skip to My Lou
Smiling Girls, Rosy Boys
Star Light, Star Bright
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Ten Little Indians
The Queen of Hearts
This Old Man
Twinkle, Twinkle
Wee Willie Winkie
What are Little Boys Made Of?
What are Little Girls Made Of?
Where is Thumpkin?