Mary Had a Little Lamb. . .?

Question

Do YOU think that the song "Mary Had a Little Lamb" has a spiritual meaning and message, or just another kid's song?

Answer 1

kids' song. don't read more into it than is there. why would the Lamb follow Mary. Shouldn't that be the other way around?

Answer 2

The words of the American nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb would appeal to a small children and introduces imagery of similes (white as snow) as part of use of the English language. The words also convey the hopeful adage that love is reciprocated! No specific historical connection can be traced to the words of
Mary had a little lamb but it can be confirmed that the song Mary had a little lamb is American as the words were written by Sarah Hale, of Boston, in 1830. An interesting historical note about this rhyme - the words of Mary had a Little Lamb were the first ever recorded by Thomas Edison, on tin foil, on his phonograph.

Answer 3

No message:

The nursery rhyme was first published as a poem by Sarah Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual incident.

As a girl, Mary Sawyer (later Mrs. Mary Tyler) kept a pet lamb, which she took to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. A commotion naturally ensued. Mary recalled:

"Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone, a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling. It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and for this purpose Mr. Roulstone was studying with his uncle. The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb; and the next day he rode across the fields on horseback to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem..."

There are two competing theories on the origin of this poem. One holds that Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, more moralistic and much less childlike than the first, were composed by Sarah Hale; the other is that Hale was responsible for the entire poem.

Mary Sawyer's house can still be visited in Sterling, Massachusetts. A statue representing Mary's Little Lamb stands in the town center.

Answer 4

It is a nice poem I love it because it rhymes so well. So many poems on here just suck because they don't rhyme.

Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece was white as snow.
Every where that Mary went,
The lamb would go too.

It followed her to school one morning.
Which wasn't alowed.
It made the chilren, laugh and play.
To see a lamb in school.

See how nice that rhymes. It had nothing to do with spiritual, it was just a nice poem that rhymed.

Answer 5

jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water dont know what they did up there but now they've got a daughter! Mary had a little lamb she ate it with mint sauce and everywhere that mary goes the lamb goes too of course!

Answer 6

It does not have a spirtitual meaning.

I'm sure there are some e-mails going around that make some connections, but really "It's fleece was white as snow?" Jesus is supposed to be an "It?"

And Jesus is supposed to follow Mary to school? What does that mean? And whatever the e-mail claims, how where people supposed to know it?

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BTW, Someone mentioned "Ring Around the Rosie," as a similar "hidden message" rhyme. But that's a false interpretation, according to several sources, including Snopes- see the attached web site.

Answer 7

Yes, it does have a spiritual meaning. Mary had a little lamb. Well, the Lamb mans Jesus Christ and the Lambs fleece was as white as snow because He was without sin. When the Lamb follows Mary to school, they are referring to when Jesus went to the Temple with His mother and preached. The Pharisees and Sadducees (the teacher in the song who sent the Lamb out) thought He was Bing blasphemous, and thought it was against God and His Rules. The children in the song laughing and playing mean the Children of God who have accepted Jesus Christ whom are rejoicing that Jesus Christ will free them of their sin.

Answer 8

Most nursery rhymes were made to convey some kind of historical or higher idea. for example, Ring Around the Rosie is about the Plague, and the one about the Monkey and the Weasel has to do with post-Industrial Revolution England.

Answer 9

Mary had a little lamb, with a side order of fries.

Answer 10

Oh...there's a really big hidden message in there. (rolling my eyes)