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Hickory Dickory Dock learn and sing the song

Learn and sing with us this wonderful song. We offer you these very simple lyrics accompanied by pictures of the little bunny with the gestures you have to make at each verse.

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Hickory Dickory Dock learn and sing the song

Hickory Dickory Dock Song a popular English language nursery rhyme can be heard at Reader Rabbit Toddler Game.

Lyrics

Hickory, dickory, dock
(Raise your left hand up as if it were a ladder to climb up.)

The mouse ran up the clock
(With your right hand simulate the climbing towards the clock.)

The clock struck one
(Tap forward with your both hands.)

The mouse ran down
(With your left hand simulate the descent of the mouse.)

Hickory, dickory, dock.

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Notes

The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744. This version uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'. The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.

The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme.

The rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral. The clock has a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice.