| Cock a Doodle Doo | |
| Type: | Nursery rhyme |
| Published: | 1765 |
"Cock a Doodle Doo" (Roud 17770) is an English nursery rhyme.
The most common modern version is:
Cock a doodle doo!My dame has lost her shoe,My master's lost his fiddling stick And knows not what to do.[1]
The first two lines were used 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:
(Verse four's alternative ending line: For Dame and Doodle Doo.)Cock a doodle doo!What is my dame to do?Till master's found his fiddling stick,She'll dance without her shoe. Cock a doodle doo!My dame has found her shoe,And master's found his fiddling stick,Sing cock a doodle do!
Cock a doodle doo!My dame will dance with you,While master fiddles his fiddling stick,And knows not what to do.[1]