Baa Baa Black Sheep

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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
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This rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest surviving collection of English language nursery rhymes, published c. 1744 with the lyrics very similar to those still used today.

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Versions of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep include:

Illustration from *Mother Goose's Melody* (c. 1765)

"Bah, Bah, a black Sheep" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
"Baa baa, black sheep" in Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick (1820)
"Baa, baa, black sheep" in Nursery Rhymes (1860)
"B" in The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1874)
Baa Baa Black Sheep, illustrated by Edmund Caldwell (1880)
"Ba-a ba-a, Black Sheep" in Nursery Rhymes (c. 1885)
"Bah! bah! Black Sheep" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
"Baa! Baa! Black Sheep" in The Baby's Opera by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane (1900)
"Baa, baa, black sheep" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1913)
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Baa! Baa! Black Sheep" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918)