Cock a doodle doo

= Cock a doodle doo =

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"Cock a doodle doo" is a popular English languagenursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Indexnumber of 17770.

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The most common modern version is:'''Origins The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, 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:In popular culture  In Oliver Stone's 1992 film JFK, the John Candy character uses this expression during his conversation with Kevin Costner's character.Notes '''
 * Herman Melville wrote a short story, perhaps a satire on other writers, with the title 'Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!' (1853).[2]
 * Cock-a-Doodle Dandy is a 1949 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey.[3]
 * Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux was the title of a 1966 short cartoon for The Inspector, in which Inspector Clouseau suspects chickens of stealing a diamond.[4]
 * The title was used for an episode of Sex and the City (2000).[5]
 * 1) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 128.
 * 2) L. J. Budd and E. H. Cady, On Melville: The Best from American Literature (Duke University Press, 1988) p. 116.
 * 3) M. Banham, The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 808.
 * 4) Cock-a-Doodle Deux-Deux, IMDB, retrieved 11 April 2009.
 * 5) Cock-a-Doodle-Do Sex and the City: Season 3, Episode 18: Cock-a-Doodle-Do, IMDB, retrieved 11 April 2009.