Lucy Locket facts for kids

"Lucy Locket" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19536.

Lyrics

18th century-style hanging pockets

Common modern versions include:

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,

Kitty Fisher found it;

Not a penny was there in it,

Only ribbon round it.

Another version:

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,

Kitty Fisher found it;

Nothing in it, nothing in it,

But the lace round it.

Tune

One version of the song shares its tune with "Yankee Doodle" which emerged in North America in the mid-eighteenth century, but it is not clear which set of lyrics emerged first.