Little Bo Peep

[owlfish]

[Poll #1928956]

Last week in guitar class, it was news to me that "Little Bo Peep" had any tune at all. The other students were mildly astonished; they'd never known it without one.

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[pwilkinson.livejournal.com]

I've answered "wagging" but I've also realised that it's the one word in the rhyme where I'm not certain of the wording - so I may well have met different words at different times.

And I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is an English/American (and possibly also a generational) divide about whether Little Bo Peep has a tune or not. From memory, on Listen with Mother, there was a nursery rhyme each day which was invariably (at least in the late '50s/early '60s) sung to a piano accompaniment by one of the presenters - and Little Bo Peep was one of the more common choices.