This Is the House That Jack Built was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878. Cherrington Manor, a handsome timber-framed house in North East Shropshire, England, is reputed to be the actual house that Jack built. There is a former malt house in the grounds. Each sentence in the story is an example of an increasingly deeply nested relative clause. The last version, "This is the horse...", would be quite difficult to untangle if the previous ones were not present. See the Noun Phrase for more details about postmodification of the noun phrase in
Old King Cole printed in Paisley, Scotland in 1985. There are only 85 known copies. In 1927, Moshe Nadir (1885–1943) published a Yiddish adaptation of "Old King Cole", """". It has since become a popular Yiddish folksong. The progressive rock band Genesis included a version of the traditional rhyme on their song "The Musical Box", from their 1971 album "Nursery Cryme". Queen paraphrased the rhyme in their song "Great King Rat" on their 1973 self-titled album: <poem>Great King Rat was a dirty old man And a dirty old man was he Now what did I tell you Would you like to see?</poem> The