{"id":7058,"date":"2006-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7058","title":{"rendered":"Mary Had A Little Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/marie.jpg\" height=\"\" width=\"\" alt=\"marie.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Mary_Had_A_Little_Lamb.mp3\">Mary Had A Little Lamb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">Thomas Edison, the father of audio recording recited the first stanza of this poem in testing his new  invention, the phonograph in 1877, making this the first audio<br \/>\nrecording to be successfully made and played back.  It was all done on tin foil.<\/p>\n<p>They say the song springs from a true story:<\/p>\n<p> As a girl, Mary Sawyer (later Mrs. Mary Tyler) kept a pet lamb, which she took to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. A commotion naturally ensued.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nWritten By: Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey&#039;s Lady&#039;s Book, 1830&#039;s<br \/>\nCopyright Unknown<\/p>\n<p>[G] Mary had a little lamb,<br \/>\n[D] Little lamb, [G] little lamb,<br \/>\nMary had a little lamb,<br \/>\nIts [D[ fleece was white as [G] snow<\/p>\n<p>And everywhere that Mary went,<br \/>\nMary went, Mary went,<br \/>\nEverywhere that Mary went<br \/>\nThe lamb was sure to go<\/p>\n<p>It followed her to school one day<br \/>\nSchool one day, school one day<br \/>\nIt followed her to school one day<br \/>\nWhich was against the rules.<\/p>\n<p>It made the children laugh and play,<br \/>\nLaugh and play, laugh and play,<br \/>\nIt made the children laugh and play<br \/>\nTo see a lamb at school<\/p>\n<p>And so the teacher turned it out,<br \/>\nTurned it out, turned it out,<br \/>\nAnd so the teacher turned it out,<br \/>\nBut still it lingered near<\/p>\n<p>And waited patiently about,<br \/>\nPatiently about, patiently about,<br \/>\nAnd waited patiently about<br \/>\nTill Mary did appear<\/p>\n<p>&#039;Why does the lamb love Mary so?&#039;<br \/>\nLove Mary so? Love Mary so?<br \/>\n&#039;Why does the lamb love Mary so?&#039;<br \/>\nThe eager children cry<\/p>\n<p>&#039;Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know.&#039;<br \/>\nLoves the lamb, you know, loves the lamb, you know<br \/>\n&#039;Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know.&#039;<br \/>\nThe teacher did reply\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Mary Had A Little Lamb Thomas Edison, the father of audio recording recited the first stanza of this poem in testing his new invention, the phonograph in 1877, making this the first audio recording to be successfully made and played back. It was all done on tin foil. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Had A Little Lamb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}