Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes are traditional poems or songs featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They were created and adressed for young children in Britain, and many other countries.

In North America, the term "Mother Goose Rhymes", introduced in the mid-18th century, is still often used.

List of Nursery Rhymes
Jack Sprat=

Jack Sprat
"Jack Sprat", or "Jack Spratt", is an English language nursery rhyme.

The most common modern version of the rhyme is:
 * Jack Sprat could eat no fat.
 * His wife could eat no lean.
 * And so between them both, you see,
 * They licked the platter clean.

Little Bo Peep=

Little Bo Peep
"Little Bo Peep", also known as "Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep", is a popular English language nursery rhyme.

There are many variations to the rhyme. The most common modern version is:
 * Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
 * And doesn't know where to find them;
 * Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
 * Wagging their tails behind them.

The following additional verses are often added to the rhyme:
 * Little and asleep,
 * And dreamt she heard them bleating;
 * But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
 * For they were still a-fleeting.


 * Then up she took her little crook,
 * Determined for to find them;
 * She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
 * For they'd left their tails behind them.


 * It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray
 * Into a meadow hard by,
 * There she espied their tails side by side,
 * All hung on a tree to dry.


 * She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
 * And over the hillocks went rambling,
 * And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
 * To tack each again to its lambkin.

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater=

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
"Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme.

The most common modern version is:
 * Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
 * Had a wife but couldn't keep her;
 * He put her in a pumpkin shell
 * And there he kept her very well.


 * Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
 * Had another and didn't love her;
 * Peter learned to read and spell,
 * And then he loved her very well.

Show Adaptation

 * Contrary to the naïve young girl in the rhyme, Bo Peep is depicted as a tyrannical warlord who extorts money from the shepherds living on her land, using the magical powers of her shepherd's crook to intimidate her enemies and force them into slavery if they fail to comply.

Characters Featured

 * Bo Peep

Items Featured

 * Shepherd Crook

Locations Featured

 * Bo Peep's Home