Famous Nursery Rhyme | Baa, Baa Black Sheep

• "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest surviving version of which dates from 1731.
• It was first published in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book in 1744.
• The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the lyrics and their variations as number 4439.
• The rhyme is usually sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, which is also used for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and the "Alphabet Song".
• The words and melody were first published together by A. H. Rosewig in Nursery Songs and Games, published in Philadelphia in 1879.
• William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose.
• Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story in 1888 called baa baa black sheep.
• There are two versions of this song.The original and the modern version.

Original version:

Bah, Bah, a black Sheep,Have you any Wool?

Yes merry have I,Three Bags full,

One for my Master,One for my Dame,

One for the Little Boy,That lives in the lane.

Modern version:

Baa, baa, black sheep,Have you any wool?

Yes, sir, yes, sir,Three bags full;

One for the master,And one for the dame,

And one for the little boy,Who lives down the lane.