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The first written records of songs for children didn't appear until the 17th Century. One well known song "Three Blind Mice" dates from around the 1600's. "Tales of Mother Goose" written in French by Charles Perrault was published in 1697.

It wasn't until the eighteenth century that today's favorite songs of "Little Bo Peep" and "London Bridge is Falling Down" were written. It is thought that Jack and Jill and Who Killed Cock Robin? are songs brought to us from the Middle Ages but there is no written proof. However, Yankee Doodle and Bobby Shaft are definiently tied to a specific social period.

In the early Nineteenth Century "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was created. The great collectors of folk songs and fairy tales - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) and the Brothers Grimm, also uncovered traditional children's songs. Halliwell published "Nursery Rhymes of England" in 1842 and "Popular Rhymes and Tales" in 1849. They are probably the two greatest collections of children's songs. Christmas carols are now the preserve of choirs and children, but were once sung by ordinary adults. Two notable nineteenth century collections were "Some Ancient Christmas Carols" by D Gilbert in 1822 and "Christmas Carols Old and New" by H Bramley in 1868. By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's "A Book of Nursery Songs" (1895), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and foot-notes. A professional anthropologist, Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) produced "The Nursery Rhyme Book" in 1897.

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