Gammer Gurton's Garland
Title: “Jack Be Nimble”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1815
Publisher: R. ChristopherRoud Folk Song Index Number: 13902
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[1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)] | R. Christopher | 3 |
The earliest known printed version of the traditional English nursery rhyme "Jack Be Nimble" is from a manuscript that dates to about 1815, when the rhyme was added by Francis Douce to Gammer Gurton's Garland, a book series the first edition of which was printed in 1784.
The most common version of this nursery rhyme is:
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jump over
The candlestick
