Nursery Rhymes

[a-l]

Does anyone remember Wallflower, Wallflower growing up so high, all the pretty maids will surely have to die ? I can't remember any more of it. Anyone know it's origin please ?

[KGarrad]

I think that's a traditional Folk Song? Irish?

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Water_Water_Wallflower_2.htm
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=3460

[a-l]

Thankyou kgarrad I remember singing that when playing . Why it has suddenly entered my mind though defeats me.

[Treetotal]

As a child...I often wondered why "Poor Mary sat a weeping...a weeping...."
Carol

[a-l]

I had forgotten that one Carol, what was the last line ? On a cold winters day ?

[Treetotal]

I thought it was...a bright summers day?
Carol

[a-l]

Thankyou Carol, I did say I'd forgotten it he! he! . I wonder if it was Mary Queen of Scots ?

[jaybelnz]

We sang the same song, but it was Sally who wept!  A playground game, where a "Sally" kneels on the ground "weeping" while others danced around her in a circle singing "Poor Sally is a weeping"  etc.

Chorus

On the carpet she shall kneel
While the grass grows in the field
Stand up on your own two feet
And choose the one you love so sweet!

When the singing got to the chorus, Sally would stand, eyes closed and twirl with her arm pointing out.  When she stopped twirling, whoever her finger was pointing at was the next "Sally".

We also played one - a clapping game "My Mother Said, I never should..... Play with the Etc. (Probably not PC these days so don't want to offend anybody).

I think there were other clapping/chanting games we did too, but that's the only one I can recall at the moment.   Some had quite complicated and fast clapping patterns too??

I'll probably start standing up and doing them when I go into sheltered care!! 

[jettejjane]

That reminded me of a two ball rhyme!  Who remembers throwing balls at the wall, catching and chanting rhymes?  This one has always stuck in my mind, the name itself was a mouthful for a 7 or 8 year old!  Here goes, not sure of the name spelling:

Nebuchadnezzar King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
when the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadnezzar began to swear
When the swear began to stop
Nebuchadnezzar bought a shop
When the shop began to sell
Nebuchadnezzar bought a bell
When the bell began to ring
Nebuchadnezzar began to sing
Doh, Ray, Me............. and so on!

This is a real trip down memory lane!

One more that Dad used to recite to me that I loved.

To Bed, to bed, said Sleepy Head,
Tarry a while said Slow
Put on the Pan said Greedy Nan
We'll sup before we go!