✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn! The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn, and the boy who looks after them is fast asleep.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn; But where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He’s under a haycock, fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, he’s sure to cry.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
This “Little Boy Blue” is the Mother Goose rhyme, first printed in the 1740s. (Eugene Field’s poem of the same name is a different work.) A haycock is a small pile of hay left to dry in a field.
Little Boy Blue was meant to watch the animals and blow his horn to call them in, but he has fallen asleep on the job. The last lines are a little joke about not wanting to wake a grumpy, sleepy child.
✦ Talk About It ✦