Children love this classic nursery rhyme and have fun making up actions to go along. Plus, here’s what it’s actually about in case they ask who the Muffin Man is.
This classic nursery rhyme, which was first recorded in a British manuscript in 1820, is most likely about the 19th-century bakers who went door-to-door selling English muffins, much like how milkmen used to deliver bottles of milk. Drury Lane, where the Muffin Man lives, is a thoroughfare bordering Covent Garden in downtown London.
Now that you know who the Muffin Man is, you can sing truthfully and honestly when you respond to the question, “Do you know the muffin man?”
O do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man.
O do you know the muffin man,
Who lives in Drury Lane?
O yes I know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
O yes I know the muffin man,
Who lives in Drury Lane.
