Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes  as well as similar conventional baby room rhymes or lullaby/melody/ditty, do we know where they stemmed? As well as why some societies discuss them, and others do not.
I presume one would need to take a look at each one separately, however as a Swede, I have actually assumed that many were probably English (itsy-spider/bahbah lamb and whatnot) and also equated into Swedish to end up being typical. As well as probably some were Swedish to begin with (Sma Grodorna/Little Frogs).
I merely attended an event at the Day care here in Japan, just to hear the tune of "Sma Grodorna" sung to something in Japanese. (Which showed up not to be about kaeru, neither did it have the dance connected with it). So who obtained it from which? It is not a tune that is normally recognized by English audio speakers (although, possibly known now due to Minority File flick).
A Danish friend recognized the finger-family dancing track, however only in Danish (daddy finger, mommy finger, brother/sister/baby finger). where did that originated from originally?
Or are the majority of these as long ago, no one cares?:-RRB- Simply discovered it fascinating that Sweden as well as Japan can discuss a typical (?) nursery rhyme when we have not truly been close in the past.

Many are a great deal much less old compared to you would certainly think. "Itsy-Bitsy Crawler" seems to date from the early-mid 20th century in America. Several of the individual ballads accumulated by Kid in the 19th century, which stem mainly in the 17th-18th centuries, stay popular today (Barbara Allen for instance.) Some American individual tracks additionally originate in the minstrel shows of the 19th century, and many British ones started off as "broadsheet ballads" offered on the roads.