<P> Blues musicians Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan both recorded the song: Guy composing his own bluesy version of the song for his album A Man and the Blues in 1968 and Vaughan covering Guy's version in his 1983 debut album, Texas Flood, with both also infusing the first four lines of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", into the song . In 1972, Paul McCartney released a version of the song . Just as he had done with the 16th - century poem Golden Slumbers which was released on The Beatles' Abbey Road LP in 1969, he added his own melody to the lyrics . The single was a top 20 hit in Britain although both the choice for and the saccharine arrangement of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" did much to erode his standing with leading rock journalists . McCartney played the song during Wings' 1972 summer tour and it was included in the Spring 1973 James Paul McCartney television special . It is commercially available on the 1993 CD issue of the Wings Wild Life LP . </P> <P> Note: This melody is the British version, which is slightly different from the American version . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Mary Had a Little Lamb Male singing the first verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Mary Had a Little Lamb Male singing the first verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb". </Td> </Tr>

Songs to the tune of mary had a little lamb