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Rain Rain Go Away

"Rain Rain Go Away" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. Similar rhymes can be found in many societies, including ancient Greece. The modern English language rhyme can be dated to at least to the 17th century when James Howell in his collection of proverbs noted Rain rain go to Spain: faire weather come again.[1]
A version very similar to the modern version was noted by John Aubrey in 1687 as used by "little children" to "charm away the Rain...":
Rain rain go away, come again a Saturday.[

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Ring a Ring o' Roses

"Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has around number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, but folklorists reject this idea.
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Roses are red

"Roses are red" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of doggerel poems inspired by that poem. It has a Round Folk Song Index The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem
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There Was a Crooked Man

"There Was a Crooked Man" is an English rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Hallowell in the 1840s and gained popularity in the early twentieth century.[1] The town of Langham is believed to have inspired this rhyme.
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There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

"There Was an

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