Remember the first nursery rhyme or Mother Goose song you learned? Was it about Little Miss Muffet and that spider beside her? And Ring-a-Ring of Roses (also known as Ring Around the Rosies) has ...

Nursery rhymes might seem like a good way to get your kids to sleep, but silly songs also teach your child a thing or two about language.

Beyond Clean Bandit's "Rockabye," more acts that have borrowed from nursery rhymes for pop hits.

It’s pretty unfair that we don’t have any words to rhyme with “rhythm” since you should have a strong sense of rhythm if you’re writing poetry or song lyrics.

After a lifetime of studying old texts, the Opies concluded that most nursery rhymes are fragments of ballads or folk songs, ancient customs and rituals, street cries or mummers' plays.

The Beatles 'Paperback Writer' hid the words to a classic nursery rhyme an idea belonging to the tune's songwriter, Paul McCartney.

The popular nursery rhyme may have emerged in the 14th century—and it didn’t have anything to do with bathing. That said, the lyrics of “Rub-a-Dub-Dub” refer to a decidedly adult situation ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.