Rub-a-Dub-Dub as a children’s rhyme first showed up in the late 18th century when a version of it was featured in the second volume of English composer James Hook’s A Christmas Box, alongside ...

The original version goes: `Hey, rub-a-dub, ho, rub-a-dub, three maids in a tub. And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and all of them going to the fair.' ...

The Meaning . The nursery rhyme, which was first published in the late 1700s in the second volume of Hook’s Christmas Box under the name “Dub a dub dub,” has, over time, become a common ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men In a Tub" is on the docket today. In other words, it's time for another Reason Behind the Rhyme ...

Braider was commenting on our recent deconstruction of the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub." Special Series From Our Listeners. Opinion Letters: Deconstructing Nursery Rhymes. ...

The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. Rub-A-Dub-Dub was animated in a similar way, yet all the characters were anthropomorphic animals. It ran in 1983, completing 30 episodes.

London librarian Chris Roberts fills Debbie Elliott in on the three men in the tub as a series on the real meaning of nursery rhymes continues. Roberts is the author of <EM>Heavy Words ...