I Had a Little Nut Tree

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"I Had a Little Nut Tree" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3749.

The song mentions a visit by the daughter of the King of Spain to request nutmeg and a pear. James Orchard Halliwell suggested that the song commemorates the 1506 visit of the Queen regnant Joanna of Castile to the English court of her brother-in-law, Henry VIII. However, the oldest known version of the song dates to 1797. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of I Had a Little Nut Tree include:

"The Nut Tree" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (1895)
"I had a little Nut Tree" in The Baby's Opera (1900)

I Had a Little Nut Tree

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