Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. II
Title: “Little Boy Blue”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1744
Publisher: Mary CooperRoud Folk Song Index Number: 11318
4 characters in this story:
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Pub. | # app. |
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[nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] | Mary Cooper | 30 | |||||||
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[you (the reader) as a character in the story] |   |
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sheep [sheep Little Boy Blue is supposed to watch] |
Mary Cooper | 2 | ||||||
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cattle | Mary Cooper | 2 |
Popular English nursery rhyme.
The earliest known printed version of this nursery rhyme appeared in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book (c. 1744), but the rhyme may have originated much earlier.
Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haycock,
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I,
For if I do,
He's sure to cry.
