Little Robin Redbreast
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- "Robbin red breast" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
- "Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901)
‘Little Robin Redbreast’ is an English language nursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20612. The earliest recorded version is from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744). Warning: template has been deprecated.