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Help me a find a public domain version of "Rub a dub dub"

  • I am guessing there many recorded versions of the traditional nursery rhyme "Rub a dub dub / Three men in a tub" out there in the wild. The question is, are there any older versions that are part of the public domain and could be used in a song without worries of copyright? Even hints about where to start looking would be appreciated! Just for reference: Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they were? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker, They all sailed out to sea, 'Twas enough to make a man stare.

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    I have a couple of Child Craft books (1949 editions), one has a version of Rub-a-Dub-Dub that goes: Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub; And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker; And all of them gone to sea. The poem is given no attribution and there is no copyright on it, the illustrations were created for the book and are under copyright.

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To clarify — you're looking for audio recordings of it? Or you just want to know if there are public domain written versions?

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The lyrics themselves are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub- so definitely public domain

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