Baa Baa Black Sheep

Versions of
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (1744)
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This rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest surviving collection of English language nursery rhymes, published c. 1744 with the lyrics very similar to those still used today.

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Versions of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep include:

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," in Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles, 1820, by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
Baa Baa Black Sheep, 1880, with illustrations by Edmund Caldwell
"Ba-a ba-a, Black Sheep," in Nursery Rhymes, c. 1885.
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," in The Real Mother Goose, 1916, by Blanche Fisher Wright (transcription project)
"Baa! Baa! Black Sheep," in The Child's Own Music Book, 1918, edited by Albert Ernest Wier