LITTLE Jack Horner

   Sat in a Corner,

Eating of Christmas Pye;

He put in his Thumb,

And pull'd out a Plumb,

   And what a good Boy was I.

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. 40.

Little Jack Horner

Sat in the corner, 

   Eating a Christmas Pie;

He put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, 

   And said, What a good boy am I!

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 26. No.LXXV

LITTLE Jack Horner sat in the corner, 

    Eating a Christmas pie; 

He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, 

   And said, "What a good boy am I!"

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. 23.

LITTLE Jack Horner sat in the corner. 

    Eating a Christmas pie; 

He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, 

   And said, "What a good boy am I!"

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 74.

Little Jack Horner 

Sat in the corner, 

Eating a Christmas Pie; 

He put in his thumb, 

And pulled out a plum, 

And said, What a good boy am I!

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.234. No. 262

Little Jack Horner 

Sat in a Corner, 

   Eating of Christmas Pye; 

He put in his Thumb, 

And pull'd out a Plum, 

   And [said] what a good Boy was I. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 61. No. 50