Namby Pamby
Title: “Little Jack Horner”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1725
Publisher: unknownRoud Folk Song Index Number: 13027
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[ate a Christmas pie] |  |
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Namby Pamby is also known as: Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----. In the complete printed title of Namby Pamby, "A----- P----" refers to Ambrose Philips, the poet and politician who Carey satirizes in the ballad.
Namby Pamby is a ballad (a lengthy narrative poem) published as a broadside, written by Henry Carey which was published in London in 1725. The ballad contains the earliest known printed version of the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner." The nursery rhyme was almost certainly in circulation before then.
The 1725 version of "Little Jack Horner," as published in Namby Pamby reads as follows (with italics as arranged by Carey himself):
Now he sings of Jacky Horner
Sitting in the Chimney-corner
Eating of a Christmas pie,
Putting in his thumb, Oh Fie
Putting in, Oh Fie! his Thumb
Pulling out, Oh Strange! a Plum.
