Hickory Dickory Dock

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Hickory Dickory Dock

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Popular English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6489. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744. The rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral, which has a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice.

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Versions of Hickory Dickory Dock include:

"The Mouse ran up ye Clock" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
"Hiccory, diccory, dock" in The Crooked Man And Other Rhymes (1851).
"D" in The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1874)
"Dickory, dickory, dock" in Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c by John Symonds Udal (The Folk-Lore Journal, 1889)
"Dickery, dickery, dock" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
"Dickory Dock" in The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane and Edmund Evans (1900)
"Hickory, dickory, dock" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).
"Hickory, dickory, dock" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1913)
"The Mouse and the Clock" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Dickory, Dickory, Dock" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).

Hickory Dickory Dock

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