Not in Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England, 1846. Not in Newell, Games and Songs of American Children, 1883, 1903. Not in Mother Goose except late revisions.

As I tried to indicate in a previous post, the song did not survive as a folk song. Except for the 17th c. broadsides, a few compilations of old songs in 19th c. books, the rhymes came from Baring-Gould, "Lavender's blue and rosemary's green," a few fragments he got from a woman in Devon but most from an old book (and his own additions). It is in some editions of Mother Goose, printed later than Baring-Gould's publication. These verses are quite different in intent from the old broadsides.