The Campaigners
Medium: play/musical/stage drama
Publication date: 1698
Publisher: unknownRoud Folk Song Index Number: 6486
1 characters in this story:
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[baker] | Wee Sing Productions | 3 |
This play/musical/stage drama is also known as: The Campaigners: or, The Pleasant Adventures at Brussels.
The earliest recorded version of the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698), in which a nurse tells her charges:
...and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven.
