Robin Field

The Real Mother Goose

The nursery rhymes and songs were mostly gathered from 18th-century England. The name “Mother Goose” was borrowed from Charles Perrault’s earlier collection of French fairy tales attributed to “ma Mère l’Oye” (my Mother Goose). Although many of these rhymes originally ridiculed certain historical figures and events, they became widely popular with British and American children for games, activities, and bedtime. Their simple rhymes, rhythms, and imagery make them suitable for any age. I sing some of them to the most familiar American melodies.

Disc 1

  1. Little Bo Peep; Little Boy Blue; Seesaw; The Clock; Winter; Fingers and Toes; A Seasonable Song; Dame Trot and Her Cat; Three Children on the Ice; Cross Patch; The Old Woman under a Hill; Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee; Oh, Dear; Old Mother Goose; Little Jumping Joan; Pat-a-Cake; Money and the Mare; Robin Redbreast; A Melancholy Song; Jack; Going to St. Ives; Thirty Days Hath September; Baby Dolly; Bees; Come out to Play; If Wishes Were Horses; To Market; Old Chairs to Mend; Robin and Richard; A Man and a Maid; Here Goes My Lord; The Clever Hen; Two Birds; Leg over Leg; Lucy Locket; When Jenny Wren Was Young; Barber; The Flying Pig; Solomon Grundy; Hush-a-Bye; Burnie Bee; Three Wise Men of Gotham; The Hunter of Reigate 19:13

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  2. Little Polly Flinders; Ride Away, Ride Away; Pippin Hill; Pussy-Cat and Queen; The Winds; Clap Handies; Christmas; Elizabeth; Just Like Me; Play Days; Heigh-Ho, the Carrion Crow; A B C; A Needle and Thread; Banbury Cross; The Man in Our Town; Georgy Porgy; For Every Evil; Cushy Cow; Wee Willie Winkie; About the Bush; Simple Simon; Three Blind Mice; Five Toes; A Little Man; Doctor Foster; Diddle Diddle Dumpling; Jerry Hall; Lengthening Days; The Black Hen; The Mist; A Candle; Miss Muffet; Curly-Locks; Humpty Dumpty; One, Two, Three; The Dove and the Wren; Master I Have; Pins; Shall We Go A-Shearing?; Goosey, Goosey, Gander; Old Mother Hubbard; The Cock and the Hen; Blue Bell Boy; Why May Not I Love Johnny?; Jack Jelf 19:13

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  3. Jack Sprat; Hush-a-Bye (2); Daffodils; The Girl in the Lane; Hush-a-Bye (3); Nancy Dawson; Harry the Great; The Alphabet; Dance to Your Daddie; One Misty Moisty Morning; Robin Hood and Little John; Rain; The Old Woman from France; Teeth and Gums; The Robins; The Old Man; T’Other Little Tune; My Kitten; If All the Seas were One Sea; Pancake Day; A Plum Pudding; Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, Mouth, and Chin; Two Pigeons; A Sure Test; Lock and Key; The Lion and the Unicorn; The Merchants of London; I Had a Little Husband; To Babylon; I’ll Tell You a Story; A Strange Old Woman; Sleep, Baby, Sleep; Cry, Baby; Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; Little Fred; The Cat and the Fiddle; Doctor Fell; A Counting-Out Rhyme; Jack and His Fiddle; Buttons; Hot Boiled Beans; Little Pussy; Sing a Song of Sixpence; Tommy Tittlemouse; The Derby Ram; The Hobby Horse; The Mulberry Bush; Young Lambs to Sell 18:32

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  4. Boy and the Sparrow; Old Woman, Old Woman; The First of May; Sulky Sue; The House That Jack Built; Saturday, Sunday; Little Jenny Wren; The Old Woman and the Pedlar; Bobby Snooks; The Little Moppet; I Saw a Ship A-Sailing; A Walnut; One, He Loves; Bat, Bat; Hark! Hark!; The Hart; My Love; The Man of Bombay 10:19

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Disc 2

  1. Poor Old Robinson Crusoe!; A Sieve; My Maid Mary; A Difficult Rhyme; Pretty John Watts; Good Advice; I Love Sixpence; Bye, Baby Bunting; Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son; Comical Folk; Cock-Crow; Tommy Snooks; The Three Sons; The Blacksmith; Two Gray Kits; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; Cock-a-Doddle-Do!; Pairs or Pears; Belleisle; Old King Cole; See, See; Dapply-Gray; A Well; Coffee and Tea; Pussy-Cat Mew; The Little Girl with a Curl; Dreams; A Cock and Bull Story; For Baby; Myself; Over the Water; Candle-Saving; Fears and Tears; The Kilkenny Cats; Old Grimes; A Week of Birthdays; A Chimney; Ladybird; The Man Who Had Naught; The Tailors and the Snail; Intery, Mintery; Caesar’s Song; As I Was Going Along; Hector Protector; Billy, Billy; Rock-a-Bye, Baby; The Man in the Wilderness 16:28

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  2. Little Jack Horner; The Bird Scarer; Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary; Bessy Bell and Mary Gray; Needle and Pins; Pussy-Cat and the Dumplings; Dance, Thumbkin, Dance; Mary’s Canary; The Little Bird; Birds of a Feather; The Dusty Miller; A Star; The Greedy Man; The Ten o’ Clock Scholar; Cock-a-Doodle-Do (2); An Icicle; A Ship’s Nail; The Old Woman of Leeds; The Boy in the Barn; Sunshine; Willy, Willy; Tongs; Jack Jingle; The Quarrel; The Pumpkin-Eater; Shoeing; Betty Blue; That’s All; Bedtime; Dance, Little Baby; My Little Maid; For Want of a Nail; Peas Porridge; Ring a Ring o’ Roses; The Crooked Sixpence; This Is the Way; Ducks and Drakes; The Donkey; If; The Bells; Little Girl and Queen; The King of France 14:43

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  3. Peter Piper; One to Ten; An Equal; The Tarts; Come, Let’s to Bed; Little Maid; What Are Little Boys Made Of?; Bandy Legs; The Girl and the Birds; A Pig; Jenny Wren; Little Tom Tucker; Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?; The Old Woman of Gloucester; Multiplication is Vexation; Little King Boggen; Whistle; Bell Horses; Taffy; The Robin; The Old Woman of Harrow; Young Roger and Dolly; The Piper and His Cow; The Man of Derby; The Coachman; There Was an Old Woman; A Thorn; The Old Woman of Surrey; The Little Mouse; Boy and Girl; When; Sing, Sing; London Bridge; March Winds; The Balloon; A Cherry; The Lost Shoe; Hot Codlins 15:18

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  4. Miller and Mouse; A; Mary’s Lamb; Willy Boy; Polly and Sukey; The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin; The Mouse and the Clock; Hot-Cross Buns; Bobby Shaftoe; The Bunch of Blue Ribbons; The Woman of Exeter; Sneezing; Pussy-Cat by the Fire; When the Snow Is on the Ground; Robin-a-Bobbin; John Smith; The Year; Handy Pandy; A Nick and a Nock; The Seasons; Billy, Billy; Rain; Jack and Jill; The Farmer and the Raven; Christmas (2) 13:33

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