'''Simple Simon''' is a popular English language nursery rhyme.

The rhyme is as follows:

:Simple Simon met a pieman,
:Going to the fair;
:Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
:Let me taste your ware.

:Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
:Show me first your penny;
:Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
:Indeed I have not any.

:Simple Simon went a-fishing,
:For to catch a whale;
:All the water he had got,
:Was in his mother's pail.
:Simple Simon went to look
:If plums grew on a thistle;
:He pricked his fingers very much,
:Which made poor Simon whistle.

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

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* “Dead and Alive” (ballad), by Laurence Price (ca. 1654)
* “Simple Simon’s Misfortunes, and His Wife Margery’s Cruelty; Who Poisoned Him with a Bottle of Sack” (ballad) (1728–31?)
* King Flame and Queen Pearly Drops; or, Harlequin Simon Simple and the Pretty Mermaid at the Bottom of the Sea (pantomime), by Nelson Lee (1865)
* Directions for a Mother Goose Party, by George B. Bartlett (1876)
* Babes in Toyland (1903)
* Boyhood Pranks; or, The Little Flips in Trouble, by Frank Dumont (1905)

* Simple Simon’s Misfortunes and His Wife Margery’s Cruelty Which Began the Very Next Morning After Their Marriage (chapbook) (18th century)
* “The Invitation” a.k.a. “Simple Simon: or, Who Was to Blame?,” by John Bancks (May 1734)
* The History of Simple Simon (1764) – chapbook from which the nursery rhyme is excerpted
* Chap‐books of the Eighteenth Century, by John Ashton (1882)
* “The Vagabond,” by Maurice Baring (1910)
* New Mother Goose Stories, by Beryl Heflin Lightfoot (1917)
* “Simple Simon Has His Day,” by Sarah Addington (Apr. 1923)
* Read It Yourself Stories, by Jessie A. Harris and Lillian M. Edmonds (1930) – in the stories “Going to School,” “In School” and “Their First Lesson”
* “Something About Simple Simon,” by Harry Bischoff Weiss (June 1940)

*Mother Gooseland (1924)
*Simple Simon (1935)

*Smash Comics #1
*The Spirit Section #12/22/1940
*Star Comics vol. 1 #11
*Four Color #59,68, 90, 103, 126, 172, 201, 253
*Doll Man #7
*Plastic Man #6

File:Simple Simon.jpg
File:Simple Simon, by G. J. Pinwell.jpg
File:Simple Simon St. Nicholas.jpg
File:ComiColorSimpleSimon.jpeg|Simple Simon as he appears in the 1935 ComiColor cartoon.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Simon_(nursery_rhyme) Wikipedia]
*[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0047664/?ref_=fn_al_ch_1 IMDB]
*[http://www.comicvine.com/simple-simon/4005-52432/ ComicVine]
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