Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
And ev’ry where that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went.
Evrywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day,
School one day, school one day.
It followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rule.
It made the children laugh and play,
Laugh and play, laugh and play.
It made the children laugh and play,
To see a lamb at school.
So the teacher turned him out,
turned him out, turned him out.
So the teacher turned him out,
And sent him straight away.
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Origin – Mary Had a Little Lamb
Two different theories vie for the origins of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” both with verifiable aspects. One theory refers to a young girl named Mary Sawyer of Sterling, Massachusetts, whose pet lamb supposedly did follow her to school in 1817. A visiting Harvard University student, John Roulstone, is said to have written the first four lines as a poem after having witnessed the incident. The second theory states that the rhyme was either,
a) written in its entirety as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale, a writer and editor in Boston;
or,
b) a combination of Roulstone’s four lines plus 12 written by Hale. Regardless, the poem was first published by Hale in 1830 in the periodical Juvenile Miscellany.
It was set to a melody in the 1830s by composer and music educator, Lowell Mason.
