| "Cock a Doodle Doo" | |
|---|---|
| Nursery rhyme | |
| Published | 1765 |
| Songwriter(s) | Traditional |
"Cock a Doodle Doo" (Roud 17770) is a nursery rhyme.
The most common modern version is:
Cock a doodle doo!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddling stick
And knows not what to do. [1]
The first two lines were used to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US) "crow". [1] The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London around 1765. [1] By the mid-nineteenth century, when it was collected by James Orchard Halliwell, it was very popular and three additional verses, perhaps more recent in origin, had been added:
Cock a doodle doo!
What is my dame to do?
Till master's found his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoe.
Cock a doodle doo!
My dame has found her shoe,
And master's found his fiddling stick,
Sing cock a doodle do!
Cock a doodle doo!
My dame will dance with you,
While master fiddles his fiddling stick,
And knows not what to do. [1]
(Verse four's alternative ending line: For Dame and Doodle Doo.)
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