This article is about a nursery rhyme. For the novel by Eddie Bunker, see Little Boy Blue (novel)

Little Boy Blue is a nursery rhyme with probable origins in the Middle Ages. Little Boy Blue was a hayward by profession.

Little Boy Blue is also the name of a 1997 film about a dysfunctional rural family starring Ryan Phillippe and Nastassja Kinski and of a prominent character in the Fables comic book series. Little Boy Blue was also the name of an obscure kid crime fighter from the 1940s created by DC Comics, a revamped version named Boy Blue appeared in the new Seven Soldiers series written by Grant Morrison.

Rhyme

Little boy blue come blow your horn.

The sheep's in the meadow,

The cow's in the corn.

Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?

Under the haystack,

Fast asleep.

Will you wake him?

No, not I

For if I do

He's sure to cry.

Nursery rhymes | Disambiguation