{"id":24132,"date":"2023-02-05T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=179623"},"modified":"2023-02-05T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:33:39","slug":"old-mother-hubbard-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Old Mother Hubbard\u2019 lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Here are the lyrics to the nursery rhyme &#8216;Old Mother Hubbard&#8217; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By BBC Music Magazine\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 05 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Old Mother Hubbard\u2019 owes her existence to to Sarah Catherine Martin (1768\u20131826). The story goes that she was inspired by her sister\u2019s housekeeper on a visit to Devon and entertained visitors with a comic rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>In 1805 she published it as <a title=\"&quot;Old\" mother=\"\" hubbard=\"\" href=\"&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Mother_Hubbard&quot;\">T<\/a>he Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog.<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"> <div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-is-a-nursery-rhyme\/&quot;\">What is a nursery rhyme?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/darkest-nursery-rhymes\/&quot;\">10 darkest nursery rhymes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <h2>\u2018Old Mother Hubbard\u2019 lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Old Mother Hubbard<br\/>\nWent to the Cupboard,<br\/>\nTo give the poor Dog a bone;<br\/>\nWhen she came there,<br\/>\nThe Cupboard was bare,<br\/>\nAnd so the poor Dog had none.<\/p>\n<p>She went to the Baker\u2019s<br\/>\nTo buy him some Bread;<br\/>\nWhen she came back<br\/>\nThe Dog was dead!<\/p>\n<p>She went to the Undertaker\u2019s<br\/>\nTo buy him a coffin;<br\/>\nWhen she came back<br\/>\nThe Dog was laughing.<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"> <div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>Famous nursery rhyme lyrics<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-are-the-lyrics-to-the-nursery-rhyme-oranges-and-lemons\/&quot;\">\u2018Oranges and Lemons\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-are-the-lyrics-to-humpty-dumpty\/&quot;\">\u00a0\u2018Humpty Dumpty\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/a-tisket-a-tasket-lyrics\/&quot;\">\u2018A Tisket A Tasket\u2019 Lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/polly-put-the-kettle-on-lyrics\/&quot;\">\u2018Polly put the kettle on\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <p>Main image: \u00a9 Sarah Catherine Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Here are the lyrics to the nursery rhyme &#8216;Old Mother Hubbard&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24133,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics.jpg",512,659,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics-233x300.jpg",233,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics.jpg",512,659,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics.jpg",512,659,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics.jpg",512,659,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/old-mother-hubbard-lyrics.jpg",512,659,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Here are the lyrics to the nursery rhyme 'Old Mother Hubbard'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}