"Polly Put the Kettle On" is an English nursery rhyme.

Common modern versions include: A song with the title: "Molly Put the Kettle On or Jenny's Baubie" was published by Joseph Dale in London in 1803.

[3] The nursery rhyme is mentioned in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge (1841), which is the first record of the lyrics in their modern form.

[1] In middle-class families in the mid-eighteenth century "Sukey" was equivalent to "Susan" and Polly was a pet-form of Mary.

[1] The melody is vaguely similar to "O du lieber Augustin", which was published in Mainz in 1788–89.