Ladybird Ladybird (nursery rhyme)

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

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English nursery rhyme. The English version has been dated to at least 1744, when it appeared in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Songbook Vol. 2. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16215.

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Versions of Ladybird Ladybird include:

"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)

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