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Baa, Baa, Black SheepBaa, baa black sheephave you any wool Yes sir, yes sir three bags full. One for my master and one for my dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane. History of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"Baa Baa Black Sheep" song was to associate wool and wool products with the animal that produces it. Also, to learn the sound a sheep makes. The first grasp of language for a child or baby is to imitate the sounds or noises that animals make. This is an onomatopoeia, which is when words sound like their meaning e.g. baa baa in "Baa, baa black sheep".The wool industry was critical to the country's economy from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. An historical connection for "Baa, baa black sheep" nursery rhyme has been suggested - a political satire said to refer to the Plantagenet King Richard III (the Master) and the the export tax imposed in Britain in 1275 in which the English Customs Statute authorised the king to collect a tax on all exports of wool in every port in the country. But our further research indicates another possible connection of this nursery rhyme to English history relating to King Edward II (1307-1327). The best wool in Europe was produced in England but the cloth workers from Flanders, Bruges and Lille were better skilled in the complex finishing trades such as dying and fulling (cleansing, shrinking, and thickening the cloth). King Edward II encouraged Flemmish weavers and cloth dyers to improve the quality of the final English products 
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