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
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