Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies

There are currently 996 rhymes in this collection.

Many rhymes have multiple variations to them. Some are minor preferences in punctuation or word choice, some choose different words or names altogether, such as "John" or "Jenny" instead of "Jack". I have tried to list all of the related variations on the page of the rhyme they belong to, with the oldest or seemingly most complete version at the top of the page, with the smaller and/or newer versions further down.

If you have children, I highly recommend WeeSing. They have fun fingerplays, beautiful lullabies, and plenty more things ranging from entertaining to educational. It's helped me keep my kids entertained, put them to sleep more nights than I can count, and made for some memorable bonding time too.

Out of curiosity, I finally decided to do a little digging and see if there were any traditional nursery rhyme compendiums out there, like what FairyTalez.com does with fairytales. Eh, not exactly. There are a couple up at NurseryRhymes.org, All Nursery Rhymes (which also has international ones!), and Children's Nursery, but even Wikipedia was surprisingly limited. So, as best as I can tell for now, Raven-Wing.net has the largest collection of nursery rhymes on the internet outside of general archive websites like Project Gutenberg or Archive.org.

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