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Mother Hubbard March
John Philip Sousa
Composed in 1885 as a companion piece to “Mother Goose,” this medley march was also based on nursery rhymes. Included are “Three Blind Mice,” “Thus the Farmer Sows His Seed,” “Old Mother Hubbard,” “Hey Diddle Diddle,” “Little Redbird in the Tree,” “London Bridge Is Falling Down,” and “The Minstrel Boy.”
Program note courtesy of Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 72.