Baba Black Sheep Nursery Rhyme

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Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!

One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir

If you want to give your kid a history lesson about early England, then you can explain the history of the meaning of the rhyme above. It goes back the late 13th to the 15th centuries when the king started taxing wool.

The reference about the first two bags has to do with taxation. The one bag is for master...meaning the king and the one bag is for the Dame...meaning the church. These were in essence illusions to the taxes paid to the church and state. The remaining bag is the one for the little boy that lives down the lane...meaning the sheepherder who raised the sheep necessary for the production of the wool.