What’s your favourite nursery rhyme? Please give the first line, say why you like it and give your sex and age

I remember Humpty Dumpty, the grand old duke of York, Little Miss Muffet, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Aiken Drum, Hush-a bye baby, Roch-a bye baby, Bye, baby bunting, Little Boy Blue, Baa, baa, black sheep, Bobby Shaftoe, Boys ang girls come out to play, What are little boys made of?, Hot cross buns, The first day of Christmas (perhaps my favourite!), , Old King Cole, The cuckoo is a merry bird, Dance to your daddy, I had a little pony, Two little dicky birds, Ding dong bell, Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone, Hark, hark the dogs do bark – and at least twice as many again.
I hope they bring back as many pleasant memories to you as they do to me.
And to finish one you may not have heard of:
I saw a fishpond all on fire
I saw a house bow to a squire
I saw a parson twelve feet high
I saw a cottage near the sky
I saw a balloon made of lead
Isaw a coffin drop down dead
Continued in the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes with many others happy memories!!!!

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Were you aware that a large number of nursery rhymes were intended as political comments or described real events?

My choice is one example others that spring to mind are:-

The Grand old Duke of York, Round and Round the Mulberry Bush and Ding Dong Bell.

I’m a Hundred year old hermaphrodite.

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