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Nursery Rhymes
*Whatever your nationality, one of the things you are sure to, remember from your childhood is the nursery rhymes you learnt at your mother's knee
*The most popular among the English children are nursery rhymes of "Mother Goose"
«Hey Diddle Diddle»
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Catherine la Fidel / Catherine the Faithful
The first wife of Henry VIII
All (nearly all) the characters in the rhyme are visible in the night skyin the month of April
•CAT - Leo
• FIDDLE - Lyra
•COW - Taurus
•MOON - MOON
• LITTLE DOG - Canis Minor
• THE DISH - Crater
• THE SPOON – Ursa Major
Is Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
Were walking out one Sunday
Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks:
“Tomorrow will be Monday."
Rhymes that underline real ordinary events as very unusual and surprising
There are "topsy-turvy rhymes" in which
the world is presented upside down:
I saw an oak creep upon the ground,
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail,I saw a blasting comet drop down hail,I saw a cloud wrapped with ivy round,
“Sir Christopher Wren
Said, ‘I’m going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I’m designing St. Paul’s”
There was a young lady of Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger!
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses, All the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Queen Caroline King George II
While historians may have interesting theories about
the origins of nursery rhymes let's hope that
children, the world over will
continue to pass on their rhymes and primitive
rhythms from generation to generation.