nursery rhyme
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Thinking of the old nursery rhyme “Muffin Man,” and a Frank Zappa song of the same name, Kirby decided to call them Muffler Men.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
They had a song for him, roughly to the tune of the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
The “doo-doo-doo” nursery rhyme has amassed 16.4 billion views—roughly equivalent to Taylor Swift’s 10 most-popular YouTube videos combined.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
According to the nursery rhyme, which item was used as a boat by Wynken, Blynken, and Nod?
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2023
Once we caught a wounded blackbird by throwing a blanket over it and figured we could make a blackbird pie, like in the nursery rhyme.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
