Baa baa sorte får har du noget uld?
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" er et engelsk børnerim, hvis tidligste bevarede version stammer fra 1731. Ordene har ikke ændret sig meget i løbet af de to og et halvt århundreder. Det synges til en variant af den franske melodi Ah! vous dirai-je, maman fra 1761. Der er fremsat ubekræftede teorier for at forklare rimets betydning. Blandt disse er, at det er en klage over de skatter, der blev opkrævet på den engelske uldhandel i middelalderen, og at det handler om slavehandel. I det tyvende århundrede var det genstand for kontroverser i debatter om politisk korrekthed. Den er blevet brugt i litteraturen og populærkulturen som metafor og hentydning. Roud Folk Song Index klassificerer teksten og dens variationer som nummer 4439.
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest surviving version of which dates from 1731. The words have not changed very much in two-and-a-half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. Uncorroborated theories have advanced to explain the meaning of the rhyme. These include it is a complaint against taxes levied on the Medieval English wool trade and it is about the slave trade. In the twentieth century it was a subject of controversies in debates about political correctness. It has been used in literature and popular culture as a metaphor and allusion. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the lyrics and their variations as number 4439.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep