Old Mother Hubbard

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Old Mother Hubbard (1805/1790s)
Anonymous; Sarah Catherine Martin

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"Old Mother Hubbard" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19334.

The exact origin of the rhyme is disputed. The first three verses were already considered "ancient" in the late 18th century. In 1805, Sarah Catherine Martin released The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, an expanded version of the rhyme with fourteen verses, which was extremely popular and became the definitive version of the rhyme.

2133321Old Mother HubbardAnonymous; Sarah Catherine Martin

Versions of Old Mother Hubbard include:

Original rhyme (i.e. first verse or verses only)

"Old Mother Hubbard" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1914)
"Old Mother Hubbard" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)

Sarah Catherine Martin's expanded version

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (1805)
The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (c. 1860s) (start transcription)
"Old Mother Hubbard" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)