Nursery rhyme
Nursery rhyme noun - A tale in rhymed verse for children.
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Song and nursery rhyme are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Song" instead a noun phrase "Nursery rhyme".
Song
Song noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.
Nearby Word: songful
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The song also namedrops "Little Miss Muffet" note , an English nursery rhyme about a girl scared off by a spider, tying in with the Giant Spider mentions in the song.
Source: Music / Roxy And Elsewhere -
Album Title Drop: Oranges & Lemons is named after a lyric from "Ballet for a Rainy Day", a song on their previous album, Skylarking, and it doubles as a reference to the old eponymous nursery rhyme.
Source: Music / XTC - A possible Ur-Example of this type of song was written in 1913, "And The Green Grass Grew All Around", not to be confused with the similarly titled nursery rhyme "The Green Grass Grew All Around", although it's also somewhat a spoof of the latter, which was written just a year before.
Source: Anti-Love Song
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