"Little Poll Parrot" is an English language nursery rhyme.
It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20178.
Like Little Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner the verse is an example of a nursery rhyme that contains six dactylic lines.
The most common modern version of the lyrics is: It has been argued that the rhyme originates in the seventeenth century.
[2] The earliest printed version was in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s.