Cock a doodle doo

"Cock a doodle doo" (Roud 17770) is a popular English language nursery rhyme.

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The most common modern version is:

Cock a doodle do!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddlestick,
And knows not what to do.^[1]

Origins[]

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 do!
What is my dame to do?
Till master's found his fiddlingstick,
She'll dance without her shoe.

Cock a doodle do!
My dame has found her shoe,
And master's found his fiddlingstick,
Sing cock a doodle do!

Cock a doodle do!
My dame will dance with you,
While master fiddles his fiddlingstick,
And knows not what to do.^[1]

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