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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Roberts |
| ISBN: | 9781592401307 1592401309 |
| OCLC Number: | 964905511 |
| Description: | 202 pages |
| Contents: | Little Jack Horner a squatter? Little Jack Horner -- Taking divinity classes? Jack be nimble -- It's falling down -- London Bridge -- Who let them out? Hark, hark, the dogs do bark -- Fancy a rub-a-dub, then, matey? Rub-a-dub-dub -- Saucy geese? Goosie, goosie, gander -- Piecing together the story -- Humpty-Dumpty -- Who ate all the pie? Sing a song of sixpence -- Bloody Mary, anyone? Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- A short tale? Three blind mice -- A child's guide to taxation -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- So good they associated it twice -- Grand old Duke of York -- Relationships rhymes -- A frog he would a-wooing go -- Disaster warning? Ladybird, ladybird -- A swift tour of London? Oranges and lemons -- Handbags at ten paces? Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- I coulda been a pretender -- William and Mary, George and Anne -- Doesn't sweat much, for a fat lad -- Georgy Porgy -- A few stops beyond Barking? As I was walking o'er little Moorfields -- By 'eck, pet! Elsie Marley is grown so fine -- American graffiti -- Yankee Doodle -- Dial 999 -- London's burning -- A quiet word about lullabies -- Baby love, my baby love -- Paved with gold? Turn again, Whittington -- Cat in well's chance? Ding dong bell -- Push, push, in the bush -- Here we go round the mulberry bush -- A proper paddy? This old man -- Penny for them? Remember, remember -- Pigs in wigs -- Animals in nursery rhymes -- Where have all the sparrows gone? Who killed Cock Robin? -- Using or losing your head? Little boy blue -- Want some Jack and Jills? Jack and Jill -- Land of my fathers -- Taffy was a Welshman -- One everyone knows ... -- Ring-a-ring o'roses -- It's the getting there that counts -- Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross -- Kitty Fisher, now she's a sort -- Lucy Locket -- Would you Adam & Eve it? Pop goes the weasel -- The odd couple -- Jack Spratt -- Wages of sin? See saw, Marjorie Daw -- Pipe and slippers -- Old King Cole was a merry old soul -- A brief note about sources. |
| Responsibility: | Chris Roberts. |
Abstract:
A history of the origins and meanings of nursery rhymes reveals the popular sport behind "Jack Be Nimble" and Humpty Dumpty's identity as a cannon mounted on the walls of a Colchester church.
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