Ladybird Ladybird (nursery rhyme)

For works with similar titles, see Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home.

Versions of Ladybird Ladybird include:

Illustration from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744)

• "Lady Bird" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
• "The Lady-bird" in A First Series of Hymns and Songs by Henry Formby (1853)
• "Leädy-bird, leädy-bird, vlee away home" in Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c by John Symonds Udal (The Folk-Lore Journal, 1889)
• "Ladybird, ladybird" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
• "Ladybird, ladybird" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901)
• "Lady Bird, Lady Bird, Fly Away Home" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, Oct. 1913)

See also

• "Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home", poetic retelling by Emily Brontë