Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19621. Modern versions of the rhyme include: The 'pig' mentioned in the song is almost certainly not a live animal but rather a kind of pastry, often made with an apple filling, smaller than a pie. Another version of the rhyme is: This rhyme is often conflated with a separate and longer rhyme: Both rhymes were first printed separately in a "Tom the Piper's Son", a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. The
Nance the Piper you to be handy with your fut, me bouchal."" Francis O'Neill was evidently much taken with the stories he heard of her, remarking that "A character so quaint and unique as this blind woman piper, if "Jimmy" Barry's story be true, should have been immortalized in Irish literature." Nance the Piper Nance the Piper (fl. later 1800s), Irish piper. According to the left-handed piper, Jimmy Barry (piper), a rare example of a woman piper was Nance the Piper of Castlelyons, County Cork. Barry related that she "become a performer from dire necessity, on the death of her husband. She was