Goosey Goosey Gander

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Versions of
Goosey Goosey Gander (1780s)

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English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6488. Most historians believe that this rhyme refers to priest holes, hiding places for itinerant Catholic priests during the persecutions under King Henry VIII and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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Versions of Goosey Goosey Gander include:

Illustration by Beatrix Potter in *Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes* (1922)

"Goosey," in Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick (1820)
"Goosie, goosie gander" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
"Goosey, Goosey, Gander," in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918)
"Goosey, goosey, gander," in Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes by Beatrix Potter (1922)