Little Poll Parrot

"Little Poll Parrot" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20178.

Lyrics
Like Little Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner the verse is an example of a nursery rhyme that contains six dactylic lines. The most common modern version of the lyrics is:


 * Little Poll Parrot
 * Sat in his garret
 * Eating toast and tea;
 * A little brown mouse
 * Jumped into the house,
 * And stole it all away.

Origins
It has been argued that the rhyme originates in the seventeenth century. The earliest printed version was in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s.