Cock a doodle doo

Nursery rhyme

For the sound a rooster makes, see Cockadoodledoo. For the Herman Melville short story, see Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! For the music album, see Cockadoodledon't.

"Cock a Doodle Doo"

Nursery rhyme
Published| 1765
Songwriter(s)| Traditional

"Cock a Doodle Doo" (Roud 17770) is an English nursery rhyme.

## Lyrics

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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]

## Origins

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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:

> 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]

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 128.

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