JACK and Gill

   Went up the Hill,

To fetch a Pail of Water;

Jack fell down

And broke his Crown,

   And Gill came tumbling after.

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. 37.

Jack and Jill went up the hill, 

To fetch a pail of water; 

Jack fell down and broke his crown, 

   And Jill came tumbling after. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 97. No. CCCCLXXXV

JACK and Jill went up the hill,

To fetch a pail of water;

Jack fell down, and broke his crown,

And Jill came tumbling after.

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. 20.

JACK and Jill went up the hill, 

   To fetch a pail of water; 

Jack fell down and broke his crown, 

   And Jill came tumbling after.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 199.

Jack and Jill went up the hill

   To fetch a pail of water;

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

   And Jill came tumbling after.



Up Jack got, and home did trot,

   As fast as he could caper,

To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob

   With vinegar and brown paper.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 224. No. 254

Jack and Gill 

Went up the Hill, 

   To fetch a Pail of Water;

Jack fell down

And broke his Crown, 

   And Gill came tumbling after. 



Up Jack got, 

And home did trot, 

    As fast as he could caper, 

To old Dame Dob, 

Who patched his nob, 

    With vinegar and brown paper. 



When Gill came in, how she did grin, 

   To see Jack's paper plaster;

Dame Dob vexed, did whip her next

   For causing Jack's disaster.  

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 58-59. No. 48