"Jack Be Nimble" is an English language nursery rhyme.

It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13902.

The most common version of the rhyme is: The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century.

[1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport.

Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame.