"Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is an English language nursery rhyme first published at the end of the eighteenth century.**(citation needed - the 1798 publication is not listed in the Roud Folk Song Index) It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3101. Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they were? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker, They all sailed out to sea, 'Twas enough to make a man stare