I Love Little Pussy

= I Love Little Pussy =

"I Love Little Pussy", alternatively called "I Love Little Kitty",[1] is an English language nursery rhyme about a person who is kind to a pet cat. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12824.

'''Lyrics and melody '''

The most common modern version is:

Additional lines include:

The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870).[3]'''Origins '''The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It has been attributed to Jane Taylor (1783–1824), as it conforms to her style. However, there is no corroborative evidence to support this case.[2]'''Controversy Usage of the word "pussy" as a slang term for the vagina or Intimate part[4] is documented since the late 17th century.[5] The rhyme's title and lyrics have been changed by some publications to replace the word "pussy" with the word "kitty",[1] among other substitute terms.See also  References '''
 * Marcy Tigner a Christian singer who recorded the song
 * 1) Googlebooks
 * 2) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), 1st edn. pp. 356-7, 2nd edn. p.423.
 * 3) J. J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0486414752, p. 502.
 * 4) pussy
 * 5) "pussy, n. and adj.2". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 December 2013.