Little Poll Parrot
# Little Poll Parrot

"Little Poll Parrot" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20178.

## Lyrics

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:

    Little Poll Parrot
    Sat in his garret
    Eating toast and tea;
    A little brown mouse
    Jumped into the house,
    And stole it all away.

## Origins

It has been argued that the rhyme originates in the seventeenth century. The earliest printed version was in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s.

