House that Jack Built

House that Jack Built
a traditional nursery rhyme in which there are lots of verses, each one adding an extra line to the one before. It begins like this:
This is the house that Jack built.
This is the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
➡ note at nursery rhymes.

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