This Is the House That Jack Built This Is the House That Jack Built "This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20584. It is Aarne–Thompson type 2035. This is perhaps the most common set of modern lyrics: Some versions use "cheese" instead of "malt", "priest" instead of "judge", "cock" instead of "rooster", the older past tense form "crew" instead of "crowed", or "chased" in place of "killed". Also in some versions the horse, the hound, and the horn are left out and the rhyme ends with the farmer. It
The House That Built Me was ranked No. 1 on Engine 145's "Best Country Songs of 2009". The song received nominations in three categories (Single of the Year, Song of the Year, and Music Video of the Year) at the 2010 CMA Awards. "The House That Built Me" debuted at number 51 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart for the week of March 6, 2010. It also debuted at number 98 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart for the week of April 10, 2010 and at number 91 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of May 1, 2010; overall,