<Dd> They went to bed and bumped their heads, </Dd> <Dd> And they couldn't get up in the morning . </Dd> <P> The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912 . The melody most often associated with it is the same as "A Tisket, A Tasket", which is in the public domain . The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress . It was noted in 1939 in New York by Charles Ives (1874--1954) and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff . </P> <P> It has been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning"). </P>

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