Little Jack Horner in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: <poem style="margin-left:24px> Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!"</poem> It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection "Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle", which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and
Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes focus on the New York punk of the 70's and early 80's. At a show in Poughkeepsie, New York on July 27, 2010, Ness revealed that the new Social Distortion album would be called "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" and also promised a November release date. A September 2010 issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine claimed the album would be released on November 23, 2010. However, Ness later said that its release date had been pushed back to January 2011. In October 2010, Social Distortion announced that "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" would be released on January 18, 2011. They also