"'''Little Boy Blue'''" is a popular English language nursery rhyme.

The most common version of the rhyme is:

:Little Boy Blue,
:Come blow your horn,
:The sheep's in the meadow,
:The cow's in the corn;
:Where is that boy
:Who looks after the sheep?
:Under the haystack
:Fast asleep.
:Will you wake him?
:Oh no, not I,
:For if I do
:He will surely cry.

It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says:
:Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard?
:Thy sheepe be in the corne;
:And for one blast of thy minikin mouth
:Thy sheepe shall take no harme.

It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion.

All published appearances of Little Boy Blue from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book (1744)
* Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
* When We Were Very Young (1924)
* The Christopher Robin Story-Book (1929)
* Read It Yourself Stories, by Jessie A. Harris and Lillian M. Edmonds (1930) – in the stories “The Story of Hen Pen,” “Six Ducks” (along with his mother) and “A Rainy Day”

* Directions for a Mother Goose Party, by George B. Bartlett (1876)

*Mother Gooseland (1924)
*Simple Simon (1935)
*Little Boy Blue (1936)
*Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
*Goofy Goofy Gander (1950)

*Fawcett's Funny Animals #13
*Four Color #41,59,68,90,103,140,253
*Jingle Jangle Comics #17

*Christmas Carnival (1952 series) #nn
*Christmas Carnival (1955 series) #2
*Tales of the Mysterious Traveler #10

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Blue Wikipedia]
*[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0047774/?ref_=fn_al_ch_1 IMDB]
*[http://www.comicvine.com/little-boy-blue/4005-38597/ ComicVine]
*[http://fables.wikia.com/wiki/Boy_Blue Fables Wikia]
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