* Whatever your nationality, one of the things you are sure to, remember from your childhood is the nursery rhymes you learnt at your mother's knee * The most popular among the English children are nursery rhymes of "Mother Goose"

«Hey Diddle Diddle» The cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such fun And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Catherine la Fidel / Catherine the Faithful The first wife of Henry VIII

All (nearly all) the characters in the rhyme are visible in the night sky in the month of April CAT - Leo FIDDLE - Lyra COW - Taurus MOON - MOON LITTLE DOG - Canis Minor THE DISH - Crater THE SPOON – Ursa Major

Is Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks Were walking out one Sunday Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks: “Tomorrow will be Monday." Rhymes that underline real ordinary events as very unusual and surprising

There are "topsy-turvy rhymes" in which the world is presented upside down: I saw an oak creep upon the ground, I saw a peacockwith a fiery tail, I saw a blasting cometdrop down hail, I saw a cloudwrapped with ivy round,

“Sir Christopher Wren Said, ‘I’m going to dine with some men. If anybody calls Say I’m designing St. Paul’s”

There was a young lady of Niger, Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger!

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses, All the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Queen Caroline King George II

While historians may have interesting theories about the origins of nursery rhymes let's hope that children, the world over will continue to pass on their rhymes and primitive rhythms from generation to generation.