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FARM ANIMALS. ENGLISH FOR BABIES WITH MR PEA. - ANIMALES DE LA GRANJA EN INGLÉS PARA BEBÉS 🐰🦆🐤🐄🐎🐖🐑

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The Animals On The Farm | Animals and Farm Song for Kids | Super Simple Songs

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Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Acoustic Version) | Kids Nursery Rhymes

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

" Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 18th century French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman.

The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes gives the following modern version:[1]

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

The rhyme is a single stanza in trochaic metre, common in nursery rhymes and relatively easy for younger children.[2][3] The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the song as 4439; variants have been collected across Great Britain and North America.[4]

Tune for Baa, Baa, Blacksheep

The rhyme is sung to a variant of the 18th century French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman,[1] also used for " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Little Polly Flinders", and " Alphabet song". The words and melody were first published together by A. H. Rosewig in (Illustrated National) Nursery Songs and Games, published in Philadelphia in 1879.[5]

Tune for Bä, bä, vita lamm

The text was translated to Swedish by August Strindberg for Barnen i skogen (1872), a Swedish edition of Babes in the Wood. To this Swedish text a melody was written by Alice Tegnér for publication in the songbook Sjung med oss, Mamma! (1892). Bä, bä, vita lamm, in which the black sheep is replaced with a white lamb, has become one of the most popular Swedish children's songs.[6]

Illustration for the rhyme from Mother Goose's Melody, first published c. 1765

The rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book of about 1744, with words very similar to the modern version:

Bah, Bah, a black Sheep,
Have you any Wool?
Yes merry have I,
Three bags full,
One for my Master,
One for my Dame,
One for my Little Boy
That lives in the lane.[1]

In the next surviving printing, in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), the text remained the same, except the last lines, which were given as, "But none for the little boy who cries in the lane".[1]

As with many nursery rhymes, attempts have been made to find origins and meanings for the rhyme, most of which have no corroborating evidence.[1] Katherine Elwes Thomas in The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930) suggested the rhyme referred to resentment at the heavy taxation on wool.[7] This has been taken to refer to the medieval English "Great" or "Old Custom" wool tax of 1275, which survived until the fifteenth century.[1] More recently the rhyme has been alleged to have a connection to the slave trade, particularly in the southern United States.[8] This explanation was advanced during debates over political correctness and the use and reform of nursery rhymes in the 1980s, but has no supporting historical evidence.[9] Rather than being negative, the wool of black sheep may have been prized as it could be made into dark cloth without dyeing.[8]

William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose

In 1986 the British popular press reported a controversy over the rhyme's language, suggesting that "black" was being treated as a racial term. This was based on a rewriting of the rhyme in one private nursery as an exercise for the children there.[10] A similar controversy emerged in 1999 when reservations about the rhyme were submitted to Birmingham City Council by a working group on racism in children's resources.[11] Two private nurseries in Oxfordshire in 2006 altered the song to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep", with "black" being replaced with a variety of other adjectives such as "happy", "sad", "hopping" and "pink".[12] Commentators have asserted that these controversies have been exaggerated or distorted by some elements of the press as part of a general campaign against political correctness.[10]

In 2014, there was reportedly a similar controversy in the Australian state of Victoria.[13]

The phrase "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" has been used in reference to a obsequious or craven subordinate. It is attested from 1910, and originally was common in the British Royal Navy.[14]

The rhyme has often appeared in literature and popular culture. Rudyard Kipling used it as the title of an 1888 semi-autobiographical short story.[7] The name Black Sheep Squadron was used for the Marine Attack Squadron 214 of the United States Marine Corps from 1942 and the title Baa Baa Black Sheep was used for a book by its leader Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and for a TV series (later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron) that aired on NBC from 1976 until 1978.[15] In 1951, together with " In the Mood", "Baa Baa Black Sheep" was the first song ever to be digitally saved and played on a computer.[16]

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2. ^ "Searchable database" Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, English Folk Song and Dance Society, retrieved 28 March 2012.

3. J. J. Fuld, ^ The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0-486-41475-2, pp. 593-4.

4. ^ Bä, bä, vita lamm, page 10, in Alice Tegnér, Sjung med oss, Mamma! (1892), found in Project Runeberg.

5. ^ W. S. Baring-Gould and C. Baring Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose (Bramhall House, 1962), ISBN 0-517-02959-6, p. 35.

6. ^ "Ariadne", New Scientist, 13 March 1986.

7. ^

8. ^ "Nursery opts for "rainbow sheep"". BBC News Education. 7 March 2006.

9. ^ "Racial connotations over black sheep prompts changes to Baa Baa Black Sheep at Victorian kindergartens". Herald Sun. 17 October 2014. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020.

10. ^ Partridge, Eric; Beale, Paul (1986). A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day (2nd revised & abridged ed.). Routledge. p. 547. ISBN 0-415-05916-X.

11. F. E. Walton, ^ Once They Were Eagles: The Men of the Black Sheep Squadron (University Press of Kentucky, 1996), ISBN 0-8131-0875-6, p. 189.

12. J. Fildes, ^ "Oldest computer music unveiled", BBC News, retrieved 15 August 2012.

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Farm Animals | Happy Farm Story | Children's Book Read Aloud | kids stories | Farm animals

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Meet the animals on the farm! As you color the different animals, talk about what sounds they make. Listen to the song " The Animals On The Farm " and point to the animals as you hear them.
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The Animals On The Farm Worksheet - Color The Animals - Super Simple

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Meet the animals on the farm! As you color the different animals, talk about what sounds they make. Listen to the song " The Animals On The Farm " and point to the animals as you hear them. Contains 1 Page Difficulty: Level 1

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher.

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English ESL worksheets, activities for distance learning and physical classrooms (x96623)

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher.

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher.

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Children will enjoy creating their very own farm animal mask. These masks can be coloured, collaged and painted to make them nice and bright. Cut out the eyes and 2 holes on either side of the face, add string and tie around children's face. These can also be used as farm animal hats by cutting the face out and attaching them to cardboard to fit around the child's head.

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Farm Animal Masks - Aussie Childcare Network

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Children will enjoy creating their very own farm animal mask. These masks can be coloured, collaged and painted to make them nice and bright. Cut out...

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Play some word games to learn and practise farm animals vocabulary.