Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary Had a Little Lamb ( Roud 7622) is an English language nursery rhyme that originated in the United States in the 19th century . The poem was set to music several times; Well-known recordings come from Paul McCartney (1972) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (1983) , for example .
Emergence
The story told in the nursery rhyme is based on a true story. Mary Sawyer (later Mary Tyler) is said to have owned a lamb as a girl, which she took to school one day. That day, a young man named John Roulstone attended school as he was preparing for college. Roulstone was so taken with the incident with the lamb that he wrote a poem about it and brought it to school the next day.
The nursery rhyme was first published on May 24, 1830 by Marsh, Capen & Lyon in Boston; The author was Sarah Josepha Hale . It is unclear whether Hale wrote the rhyme alone, or whether she added more lines to the lines originally written by Roulstone.
Settings and recordings
Lowell Mason set the poem to music for the first time in the 1830s . In 1877 Thomas Alva Edison recorded the poem with his newly developed phonograph .
The blues musician Buddy Guy composed his own version of the nursery rhyme, which he released on the 1968 album A Man and the Blues . Stevie Ray Vaughan took up this version again in 1983 on his debut album Texas Flood . Paul McCartney released the song with his own tune as a single in 1972.
At Anyang (South Korea) , "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was used as a melody for a musical street to keep road users alert and alert.
text
Mary had a little lamb,
little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
Mary went, Mary went,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school one day,
school one day, school one day
He followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.
It made the children laugh and play,
laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play,
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out,
turned it out, turned it out,
And so the teacher turned it out,
But still it lingered near,
He waited patiently about,
ly about, ly about,
He waited patiently about,
Till Mary did appear .
'Why does the lamb love Mary so?'
love Mary so? ' love Mary so? '
'Why does the lamb love Mary so?'
The eager children cried.
'Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,'
lamb, you know, 'lamb, you know,'
'Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,'
The teacher did reply.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' Is Based on a True Story . Smithsonian.com
- ↑ Thomas A. Edison with Mary Had a Little Lamb on YouTube
- ↑ Buddy Guy with Mary Had a Little Lamb on YouTube
- ↑ Steve Ray Vaughan with Mary Had a Little Lamb on YouTube
- ↑ Paul McCartney with Mary Had a Little Lamb on YouTube
- ^ Singing Streets and Melody Roads . ABC News , November 29, 2007
- ^ Text from 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'