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Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. Though not explicitly described, he is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture. The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026.
The most common modern text is:
<poem>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.</poem>
The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870).
The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle. The earliest known version is in a manuscript addition to a copy of Mother Goose's Melody published in 1803, which has the modern version with a different last line: "Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again". It was first published in 1810 in a version of Gammer Gurton's Garland as:
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