The nursery rhyme that inspired The Queen Was in the Parlour is listed as what number in the Roud Folk Song Index?
1ffd5d81e98491ec6730e4d895d5cb7d
The Queen Was in the Parlour The Queen Was in the Parlour: a romance in three acts is a play by the English writer Noël Coward. Belonging to the Ruritanian romance genre, its title is drawn from a line in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence". Although written in 1922, it was not produced until 24 August 1926, when it was premiered at the St Martin's Theatre.
4fcf96e446eb94f6bb486eebd01b1f55
Sing a Song of Sixpence "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as number 13191.
b112671466d0354719427c9098be549d
When the Boat Comes In (song) "When The Boat Comes In" (or "Dance Ti Thy Daddy") is a traditional English folk song, originating in North East England. An early source for the lyrics,Joseph Robson's "Songs of the bards of the Tyne", published 1849, can be found on the FARNE archive at ; in FARNE's notes to the song, it is stated that these lyrics were written by William Watson around 1826.
eede597ff851a4dcd1d72ce23623d322
List of songs with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse This list contains songs with lyrics written or co-written by the English humorist, novelist and playwright P. G. Wodehouse
94b74200efd93c8bfe248868fb0aa72d
Parlour music Parlour music is a type of popular music which, as the name suggests, is intended to be performed in the parlours of middle-class homes by amateur singers and pianists. Disseminated as sheet music, its heyday came in the 19th century, as a result of a steady increase in the number of households with enough surplus cash to purchase musical instruments and instruction in music, and with the leisure time and cultural motivation to engage in recreational music-making. Its popularity waned in the 20th century as the phonograph record and radio replaced sheet music as the most common method of dissemination of popular music. This is the middlebrow and lowbrow music from which European classical music began to gradually and eventually self-consciously distance itself beginning around 1790. (1989, p. 4, 17-18, 321)
faa4003cb601f74e4f4a26b6d9ccec45
This Is the House That Jack Built "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.
b863d3a70e3331626160c064042e037c
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as a personified egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs". Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings.
772f505f7af906bceffe7d7102c37ff1
Barbara Allen (song) "Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional Scottish ballad; it later travelled to America both orally and in print, where it became a popular folk song. Ethnomusicologists Steve Roud and Julia Bishop described it as "far and away the most widely collected song in the English language — equally popular in England, Scotland and Ireland, and with hundreds of versions collected over the years in North America."
0d97451d362cc0d1a4c96a6d77fe4bfd
Foggy Dew (English song) "Foggy Dew" or "Foggy, Foggy Dew" is an English folk song. The song describes the outcome of an affair between a young weaver and a girl he courted for some time. She initially comes to his bed because she is afraid of the "foggy, foggy dew" but it seems she often returned. Early versions of the song refer to her fear of the "bugaboo" rather than the foggy dew. It is cataloged as Laws No. O03 and Roud Folk Song Index No. 558.
f7f3c3805612ac263ea3a931a28a591c
Jamie Foyers "Jamie Foyers" is a well-known song by the folk singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl. In "The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook", Peggy Seeger wrote that the song was written in the period 1937-9 but could not give an exact year. The song was not copyrighted until 1963 by Stormking Music.
26bcbe3bb2898133ef1a929b6bc6b383
Riddles Wisely Expounded "Riddles Wisely Expounded" is a traditional English song, dating at least to 1450. It is Child Ballad 1 and Roud 161, and exists in several variants. The first known tune was attached to it in 1719.
be5bcae7ca3a746bcd494c5200a9b4ce
Blacksmith (song) "Blacksmith" (Roud 816) is a traditional English folk song, also known as "A Blacksmith Courted Me". The song was noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909 from a Mrs Ellen Powell of Westhope near Weobley, Herefordshire. On that occasion it was sung to the tune "Monk's Gate", better known as the tune of "To be a pilgrim", the hymn by John Bunyan. The same tune is sometimes used for the song "Our Captain Cried". There is a setting by George Butterworth (a friend of Vaughan Williams and Cecil Sharp) in his 1912 collection "Folk Songs from Sussex" (recorded by Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside in the Naxos English Song Series 8.572426).
e42c6c2786e406227d1c5b3b37eb34d4
Girls and Boys Come Out To Play 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play' or 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' is a nursery rhyme that has existed since at least 1708. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 5452.
d4ea32b90d7a2dfc6b534490923f518e
Merrily Merrily "Merrily Merrily" is an English song from the songbook, "55 Songs and Choruses for Community Singing", published in 1917. According to the book, it is a round which by its words and its bugle-like music recalls hunting scenes in England.
decc08816a60758cb31f32afb8aec255
Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) "Simple Simon" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19777.
5d914a7f0fd1c3a207c6f896c9d0bd2b
The Lark in the Morning (English folk song) The Lark in the Morning (Roud ) is an English folk song. It was moderately popular with traditional singers in England, less so in Scotland, Ireland and the USA. It starts as a hymn to the ploughboy's life, and often goes on to recount a sexual encounter between a ploughboy and a maiden resulting in pregnancy.
6d977b616ecc8c14d72a6329d9af2bba
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497.
57ef8e5325a72a102b40a6e4c4a4c0bb
The Lochmaben Harper "The Lochmaben Harper" or "The Blind Harper" is a traditional British Folk ballad (Child # 192, Roud # 85) and is one of the ballads collected by Francis Child in "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1882–1898).
786a0c7450e066288db41b702001ac36
An Awhesyth An Awhesyth, Cornish (Kernewek) for "The Lark", is a traditional Cornish folk song. In English, a version of this song exists called The Lark in the Morning, and a similar song in English goes under the title The Pretty Ploughboy (Roud 151).
cc7fb0ca056223aa8512ea8589c60117
This Old Man "This Old Man" is an English language children's song, counting and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550.
3205eba68ed8000bb4a03714b8835a70
Row, Row, Row Your Boat "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song. It can also be an "action" nursery rhyme, whose singers sit opposite one another and "row" forwards and backwards with joined hands. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236.
b8dd8be73f93f044195f5a0c950f3c92
Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be? "What Can the Matter Be?", also known as "Johnny's So Long at the Fair" is a traditional nursery rhyme that can be traced back as far as the 1770s in England. There are several variations on its lyrics.