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Origin[]
"Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is an English language nursery rhyme.
This rhyme exists in many variations. Among those current today is:
- Rub-a-dub-dub,
- Three men in a tub,
- And who do you think they were?
- The butcher, the baker,
- The candlestick-maker,
- They all sailed out to sea,
- 'Twas enough to make a man stare.
And:
- Rub-a-dub-dub,
- Three men in a tub,
- And who do you think they be?
- The butcher, the baker,
- The candlestick-maker,
- All put out to sea.
Notes[]
- In There Was a Boy Who Lived on Pudding Lane, Santa Claus’ father is both the Baker from this story and the Pieman, combined into one character.