Little Poll Parrot

= Little Poll Parrot =

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"Little Poll Parrot" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20178.

'''Lyrics '''

Like Little Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner the verse is an example of a nursery rhyme that contains six dactylic lines. The most common modern version of the lyrics is:
 * Little Poll Parrot
 * Sat in his garret
 * Eating toast and tea;
 * A little brown mouse
 * Jumped into the house,
 * And stole it all away.[1]

'''Origins It has been argued that the rhyme originates in the seventeenth century.[2]The earliest printed version was in a collection by James Orchard Halliwellin the 1840s.[1]Notes '''
 * 1) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 353.
 * 2) Hunt, Peter (1998). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 178. ISBN 0-415-08856-9.