" Old Nursery Rhymes " (( How many do we remember ))

There was an old woman
Tossed up in a basket

Winking, Blinking and Nod

my GC love "it's raining it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St Clemens.

Jack and Jill.

Wee Willie Winkie

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily , merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

Polly put the kettle on…

I'm a little tea pot...
Incy Wincy spider...
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly...
Old shoes new shoes red and pink and blue shoes...
I saw a mouse,where?there on the stair...
this last one I started saying to my 5yr old GS and he turned to the stairs thinking the really was a mouse,love him!!!

Lucy Locket lost her pocket
Kitty Fisher found it
Nothing in it, nothing in it
But the ribbon round it.

There was an old man called Michael Finnigan

HotFootSue we used to say,

Lucy Locket list her pocket
Kitty Fisher found it
Not a penny was there in it
Just a ribbon round it.

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

Pardon Mrs Arden there’ s a kitty in your garden
Mary, Mary quite contrary
Tom Tom the piper’s son
Hickory dikory dock
The grand old duke of York
Little Miss Muffet
Ding dong dell
And so many more, my g grand daughter loves to sing them.

Sing a song of sixpence
Little boy blue
Old King Cole
Mary had a little lamb
Twinkle twinkle little star
Rock a bye baby

Anyone remember
The Big ship sails on the Alleyalleyoo?
The Alleyalleyoo the Alleyalleyoo
The Big Ship sails on the Alleyalleyoo
On the last day in September
The Captain said it would never never do etc etc
Maybe it was just a London one. We would skip to it in the playground in primary school.

Little Bo Peep
Three Little Kittens
Old King Cole
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Tom Tom the Pipers Son
The Owl and the Pussycat

Mary, Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
I live with a brat
In a high-rise flat,
How the heck would I know?
...
Jack & Jill.
Doctor Foster Went To Gloucester.
Humpty Dumpty.
The Grand Old Duke Of York.
Hey Diddle Diddle.
Three Men In A Boat.
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
There Were Three In The Bed.
Pussy Willow.

When my brother was little he used to ask for “Home did chot”. That is, “Up Jack got and home did trot”, the second verse of Jack and Jill.

I always liked

I had a little nut tree
And nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
And a golden pear.

The King of Spain’s daughter
Came to visit me,
And all for the sake
Of my little nut tree.

The man in the Moon
This little piggy
Tommy thumb
There's a worm at the bottom of the garden
Girls and boys come out to play
Hot cross buns.

Apparently as a toddler I always used to cry at

Three little kittens, they lost their mittens
And they began to cry
Oh mother dear, we very much fear
That we have lost our mittens.

Lost your mittens?
You naughty kittens
Then you shall have no pie.

Three Little Kittens
Lost their mittens
And they began to cry
Oh Mother dear, we sadly fear
Our mittens we have lost
What! Lost your mittens
You naughty kittens
Then you shall have no pie

'Auntie Mary had a canary
Up the leg of her drawers.
It wouldn't come down for half a crown
And I don't know any more'.

I don't think it's exactly a nursery rhyme but I do remember my grandma singing it to me .

She was of Irish decent and also sang things like, 'Delaney had a donkey' and 'What a wonderful motorcar' Val Donican did an album of these and similar. I wish I could find it again for my grandson.