Jack Jintle
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: unknownRoud Folk Song Index Number: 3550
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The origins of the nursery rhyme "This Old Man" are obscure. The earliest known version is one which is somewhat different from the modern version. In Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (1937), Anne Gilchrist recounts the following version which she learned from her Welsh nurse in the 1870s:
My name is Jack Jintle, the eldest but one,
And I can play nick-nack upon my own thumb.
With my nick-nack and pad-lock and sing a fine song,
And all the fine ladies come dancing along.
My name is Jack Jintle, the eldest but two,
And I can play nick-nack upon my own shoe.
With my nick-nack, etc.
