Hickory Dickory Dock - Nursery Rhymes - English

«Hickory Dickory Dock» or «Hickety Dickety Dock» is a popular English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6489. Lyrics The most common modern version is: Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock. Other variants include «down the mouse ran» or «down the mouse run» or «and down he ran» in place of «the mouse ran down». Origins and meaning The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744, which uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'. The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'. The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme. Westmoreland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera , Devera and Dick Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in Dublin for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting. To make your kids more creative, innovative & intelligent Click on the link below :- Its Absolutely Free !!!!