PASSIAK: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick. EISENBERG: Yeah, weird, right. Yeah, and then what happens? I don't think anything. PASSIAK: He lights his pants on fire maybe?

They are non-violent, nutrition-conscious, and liberated. For example: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick! Jill be nimble, jump it too, If Jack can do it, so can you!

The children's literature version of VH1's Behind the Music, Over the Candlestick: Classic Nursery Rhymes and the Real Stories Behind Them, collected by father-and-son team Michael G. Montgomery ...

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"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick." So runs the nursery rhyme whose opening Jack O'Brien has made the title of his exuberant theatrical memoir, and it's even apter ...

Another Jack jumped over a candlestick, which doesn’t seem that difficult. Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating curds and whey. Or was that Little Miss Muffet? Whatever. Jack Sprat could eat no ...

“Rub-a-dub-dubThree men in a tub,And who do you think they be?The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, And all of them out to sea.” Nursery rhyme origins are often murky.