| Round and round the garden | |
| Cover: | Round and round the garden - palm variant.webm |
| Type: | Nursery rhyme |
| Published: | 1940s |
"Round and round the garden" is an English language nursery rhyme typically accompanied by fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19235.
The version given by The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes is:[1]
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s.[2] Since teddy bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is likely to be fairly recent in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there":
The adult reciting the verse starts by tracing an index finger in circles on the child's upturned palm, then walks their fingers up the arm with each "step", ending with a tickle under the child's arm.
. Opie . Peter. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Iona_and_Peter_Opie. 1997. 2nd . Oxford University Press. 215.
. Opie . Peter. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Iona_and_Peter_Opie. 1997. 2nd . Oxford University Press. 233.