Tales From The Nursery – Part Twenty One

Little Boy Blue This popular nursery rhyme was first published in 1744, inevitably in Tommy Thumb’s Little Song Book, and the most common version goes along these lines, “Little Boy Blue/ Come blow your horn/ The sheep’s in the meadow/ the cow’s in the corn; / Where is the boy/ who looks after the sheep?/ Under the haystack/ fast asleep. Will you wake him?/ On no, not I/ For if I do/ He will…