Round and Round the Garden
Round and round the garden is a nursery rhyme for infants and toddlers. Usualy it is accompanied by fingerplay, such as touching and tickling.
Rhyme
The version given by The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes is:[1]
This rhyme is probably fairly recent.
Origins
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s.[2] Since teddy bears were not common before the twentieth century it is likely fairly recent in its current form. Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there":[2]
References
- ↑ Opie, Iona. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997)Oxford University Press. p. 215.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Opie, Iona. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997)Oxford University Press. p. 233.
