This Is the House That Jack Built facts for kids
Quick facts for kids "This Is the House That Jack Built" |
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Randolph Caldecott illustration from The complete collection of pictures & songs, published 1887 (digitally restored)
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Nursery rhyme | |
Published | 1755 |
"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20584. It is Aarne–Thompson type 2035.
Lyrics
This is perhaps the most common set of modern lyrics:
- This is the house that Jack built.
- This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the man all tattered and torn
- That kissed the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the judge all shaven and shorn
- That married the man all tattered and torn
- That kissed the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the rooster that crowed in the morn
- That woke the judge all shaven and shorn
- That married the man all tattered and torn
- That kissed the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the farmer sowing his corn
- That kept the rooster that crowed in the morn
- That woke the judge all shaven and shorn
- That married the man all tattered and torn
- That kissed the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
- This is the horse and the hound and the horn
- That belonged to the farmer sowing his corn
- That kept the rooster that crowed in the morn
- That woke the judge all shaven and shorn
- That married the man all tattered and torn
- That kissed the maiden all forlorn
- That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
- That tossed the dog that worried the cat
- That killed the rat that ate the malt
- That lay in the house that Jack built.
Some versions use "cheese" instead of "malt", "priest" instead of "judge", "cock" instead of "rooster", the older past tense form "crew" instead of "crowed", "shook" instead of "tossed", or "chased" in place of "killed". Also in some versions the horse, the hound, and the horn are left out and the rhyme ends with the farmer.
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