sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, textbook, taxonomy, travel guide, Wikidata item"Old Mother Hubbard" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19334.
The exact origin of the rhyme is disputed. The first three verses were already considered "ancient" in the late 18th century. In 1805, Sarah Catherine Martin released The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, an expanded version of the rhyme with fourteen verses, which was extremely popular and became the definitive version of the rhyme.
