DICKERY, Dickery Dock,

   The Mouse ran up the Clock;

The Clock struck one,

The Mouse ran down, 

Dickery, Dickery Dock.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, As First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. About A.D., 1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. [Reprinted by Singing Tree Press, Book Tower, 1969] p. 73.

HICKORY, diccory, dock,

   The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

And down the mouse run,

Hiccory, diccory, dock.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 15.

Dickery, dickery, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

And down he run;

Dickery, dickery, dock!

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 131. No. LVI in the Nursery Jingles Section

HICKORY (1), Dickory (2), dock (3)

   The mouse ran up the clock (4);

The clock struck one (5);

The mouse was gone (6);

O (7), U (8), T (9), spells OUT!

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 176.

Hickory, dickory, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock.

   The clock struck one,

   The mouse ran down,

Hickory, dickory, dock.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 206. No. 217

Hickere, Dickere Dock, 

A Mouse ran up the Clock, 

The Clock Struck One, 

The Mouse fell down, 

And Hickere, Dickere Dock.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 31. No. 8