Baa Baa Black Sheep

by Anonymous

Versions of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep include:

Illustration from Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765)

• "Bah, Bah, a black Sheep" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
• "Baa baa, black sheep" in Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick (1820)
• "Baa, baa, black sheep" in Nursery Rhymes (1860)
• "B" in The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1874)
• Baa Baa Black Sheep, illustrated by Edmund Caldwell (1880)
• "Ba-a ba-a, Black Sheep" in Nursery Rhymes (c. 1885)
• "Bah! bah! Black Sheep" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
• "Baa! Baa! Black Sheep" in The Baby's Opera by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane (1900)
• "Baa, baa, black sheep" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1913)
• "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
• "Baa! Baa! Black Sheep" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918)