Hickory Dickory Dock Nursery Rhyme - Kids Songs - Rhymes & Songs for Children

Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory dickory dock. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck two, The mouse ran down, Hickory dickory dock. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck three, The mouse ran down, Hickory dickory dock. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck four, The mouse ran down, Hickory dickory dock. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744, which uses the opening line: ’Hickere, Dickere Dock’.[1] The next recorded version in Mother Goose’s Melody (c. 1765), uses ’Dickery, Dickery Dock’.[1] The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme.[1] Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera (8), Devera (9) and Dick (10) whi