"Simple Simon" is an English language nursery rhyme.

It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19777.

The rhyme is as follows; The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764.

[1] The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly through an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad, Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty, from about 1685.

[1] A possible inspiration is Simon Edy, a beggar of the St Giles area in the 18th century.