Famous Nursery Rhyme | Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall

• The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements in 1797.
• Humpty Dumpty is first recorded in 1797 and transformed 70 years later by Lewis Carroll into an anthropomorphic egg.
• Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character. 
• Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics.
• The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026.
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century.
• Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War (1642-49).
• The image of Humpty Dumpty was made famous by the illustrations included in the 'Alice through the looking glass' novel by Lewis Carroll.
• It is the egg like nursery-rhyme character who fell off a wall and could not be put together again, the rhyme was originally a riddle to which the answer was ‘egg’, and is recorded from the first half of the 19th century.Watch this video below.

Lyrics:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again