One of the things about Mother Goose poems that always impresses me is how many of them turn out to be rags and tags of actual songs that were popular once upon a time; that the origins and even authors of the rhymes are known, that they are not all of them so-called 'folk' poetry, and are not even truly 'ancient' (two or three hundred years is not really ancient). It sometimes makes me wonder what bits and pieces of songs we listen to today might survive to be Mother Geese of the future. What tags or 'ear-worms' would you consider likely candidates?
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