Hickory Dickory Dock

Thanks to Marri Nallos for some amazing singing. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London around 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. Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in Dublin for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting. As with many other nursery rhymes, there are two substantially different melodies, one associated with Great Britain and the other with North America.