Goosey Goosey Gander

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Goosey Goosey Gander (1780s)

English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6488. Most historians believe that this rhyme refers to priest holes, hiding places for itinerant Catholic priests during the persecutions under King Henry VIII and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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Versions of Goosey Goosey Gander include:

"Goosey," in Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles, 1820 by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
"Goosey, Goosey, Gander," in The Child's Own Music Book, 1918 edited by Albert Ernest Wier
"Goosey, goosey, gander," in Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, 1922 by Beatrix Potter

Goosey Goosey Gander

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