The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems Cock a Doodle Doo Song to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US ) "crow". [1] The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London around 1765. [1] By the mid-nineteenth century, when it was collected by James Orchard Halliwell, it was very popular and three additional verses, perhaps more recent in origin, had been added.
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