The Clog from OzHickory DIckory Dock and Other Nursery Rhymes
October 29th 2006 23:40
“Hickory, dickory dock, three mice ran up the clock, the clock struck one, and the other two escaped with minor injuries.” – Unknown
Didn’t you just love those old nursery rhymes we learned when we were little? The weird thing is, you repeated them so often they’re just drilled into your brain! Could you recite Eency Weency Spider, The Ants Go Marching One By One, or Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle?
Or what about Ring-a-ring o’ Roses which was actually about The Black Plague of the 1600’s? "Ring-a-ring o' roses" refers to the rosy colored rash one would get – an early symptom of the plague. "Pocket full of posies" refers to the medicine and herbs people carried in their pockets to prevent the plague. “Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down" are the last sneezes of the person and their collapse as they fell down and died.
Can you also recall those hand-clap things you used to do with someone else?:
“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack.
All dressed in black, black, black.
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To seen the elephants, elephants, elephants,
Jump the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high,
They touched the sky, sky, sky,
They never came back, back, back,
Till the end of July, July, July.”
Or there was My Aunty Anna who played the Pianna, or C.C my playmate. Good times! They surely did pass the time at little lunch. But I can’t seem to remember if the boys participated in these hand clap games. I know boys nowadays don’t join in purely because it’s not seen as a very macho activity, i.e. it’s ‘sissy’. Are there any guys out there who aren’t afraid to admit the good times they had clapping hands with a partner and singing songs?
Didn’t you just love those old nursery rhymes we learned when we were little? The weird thing is, you repeated them so often they’re just drilled into your brain! Could you recite Eency Weency Spider, The Ants Go Marching One By One, or Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle?
Or what about Ring-a-ring o’ Roses which was actually about The Black Plague of the 1600’s? "Ring-a-ring o' roses" refers to the rosy colored rash one would get – an early symptom of the plague. "Pocket full of posies" refers to the medicine and herbs people carried in their pockets to prevent the plague. “Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down" are the last sneezes of the person and their collapse as they fell down and died.
Can you also recall those hand-clap things you used to do with someone else?:
“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack.
All dressed in black, black, black.
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To seen the elephants, elephants, elephants,
Jump the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high,
They touched the sky, sky, sky,
They never came back, back, back,
Till the end of July, July, July.”
Or there was My Aunty Anna who played the Pianna, or C.C my playmate. Good times! They surely did pass the time at little lunch. But I can’t seem to remember if the boys participated in these hand clap games. I know boys nowadays don’t join in purely because it’s not seen as a very macho activity, i.e. it’s ‘sissy’. Are there any guys out there who aren’t afraid to admit the good times they had clapping hands with a partner and singing songs?
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Comment by RachDegab
I loved that song!
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