Nursery Rhymes

Ring o rosies

Ring­a­ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A­tishoo! A­tishoo!
We all fall down.

A folk song originated around the 1790's often associated with the black plauge, with the lyrics being associated with the symptoms for the plauge.

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

A poem about a clumsy person, portrayed as an egg. The term Humpty Dumpty was commonly associated with clumsy people and a brandy drink.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet

Eating her curds and whey,

Along came a spider,

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

A rhyme, possibly about Thomas Muffets' daughter as Thomas Muffet was a doctor of entomology. Although the rhyme itself has been portrayed as a young girl being frightened by her brother with a plastic spider.

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

And Jill came tumbling after.   

The nursery rhyme is often associated with King Louis XVI and Maire Antoinette who were both beheaded.

Orange and lemons                                                                                  

Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.

This rhyme is about churches of England and some features of the city that the church is in.