Dragon Finger Family Song

Dragon Finger Family Song and similar conventional baby room rhymes or lullaby/melody/ditty, do we know where they came from? And also why some cultures share them, as well as others do not.
I think one would certainly have to look at each one separately, but as a Swede, I have assumed that several were possibly English (itsy-spider/bahbah sheep and also whatnot) and translated right into Swedish to become typical. And also possibly some were Swedish to begin with (Sma Grodorna/Little Frogs).
I merely went to an event at the Childcare below 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 associated with it). So who obtained it from whom? It is not a song that is typically known by English audio speakers (although, maybe known currently as a result of Minority Record flick).
A Danish pal recognized the finger-family dance tune, yet just in Danish (daddy finger, mommy finger, brother/sister/baby finger). where did that originated from originally?
Or are a lot of these so long earlier, no one cares?:-RRB- Merely found it appealing that Sweden and also Japan can share a typical (?) nursery rhyme when we have actually not really been enclose the past.

Numerous are a lot less old compared to you 'd think. "Itsy-Bitsy Crawler" seems to date from the early-mid 20th century in America. Some of the people ballads accumulated by Youngster in the 19th century, which come from mainly in the 17th-18th centuries, remain popular today (Barbara Allen for example.) Some American folk songs also originate in the minstrel programs of the 19th century, and numerous British ones started as "broadsheet ballads" offered on the streets.