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
One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) Fallen Angels", by Cassandra Clare. The character Simon reflects on his mother teaching him the rhyme as a child. Ashe Corven recites a version of the rhyme in the 1996 film "", with crows in place of magpies. The rhyme is in part 5 of Monday, January 12 in the mystery "Through the Evil Days" by Julia Spencer-Fleming when a crow caws once in a tense winter scene, leaving a character who is visualizing a grim outcome to hope for a second caw. The novels in the John, the Lord Chamberlain series of historical mysteries, taking place in Justinian's Constantinople,