Little Jack Horner
folk song
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Summary
Little Jack Horner is a nursery rhyme[1]. It draws 5,976 Wikipedia views per month (nursery rhyme category, ranking #7 of 51).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: bagatelle[3], musical work/composition[4]
- Composer: James Hook[5], Samuel Arnold[6]
- Illustrator: Thomas Bewick[7]
- Commons category: Little Jack Horner[8]
- Language of work or name: English[9]
- Country of origin: Kingdom of Great Britain[10]
- Inception: 1800[11]
- Publication date: 1772[12]
- Characters: Jack Horner[13]
- Main subject: pie[14], Prunus subg. Prunus[15], thumb[16], corner[17], eating[18], Jack Horner[19]
- Work available at URL: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/74/nursery-rhymes-and-traditional-poems/5259/little-jack-horner/[20]
- Described at URL: https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/BGMG050.html[21]
- Described by source: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes[22]
- Published in: Mother Goose’s Melody[23], Christmas Box[24], Juvenile Amuſement[25]
- Has characteristic: traditional folk song[26]
- Tempo marking: andantino[27]
- First line: Little Jack Horner[28]
- Last line: And said, What a good boy am I![29]
- Derivative work: Namby Pamby[30], The Pleaſant Hiſtory of Jack Horner[31]
- Copyright status: public domain[32]
- Quotation or excerpt: Little Jack Horner / Sat in the corner, / Eating a Christmas pie ; / He put in his thumb, / And pulled out a plum, / And said, What a good boy am I![33], Little Jack Horner / Sat in a Corner, / Eating of Chriſtmas Pye ; / He put in his Thumb, / And pull’d out a Plumb, / And what a good Boy was I.[34]
- Form of creative work: song[35]
Why It Matters
Little Jack Horner is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]