Great A Little A

DESCRIPTION: "Great A, little A, Bouncing B, The cat's in the cupboard And she can't see me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1744 (Tom Thumb's Pretty Song Book, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: animal playparty nonballad wordplay
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 51, "Great A, little a" (1 text plus a possible variant)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #607, p. 240, "(Great A, little a)"
Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads, p. 116, "(no title; filed under "Rope Jumping")" (1 short text)
File: ByGo116a

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