✦ The Rhyme ✦
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker, And all of them gone to sea.
✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub. And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker!
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker, And all of them gone to sea.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“Rub-a-Dub-Dub” dates back to the late 1700s. The three men are tradesmen from an old town: a butcher who sold meat, a baker who made bread, and a candlestick-maker.
Going to sea in a washtub is a silly idea, which is exactly the fun. “Rub-a-dub-dub” is also the sound of scrubbing in a tub at bath time.
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