Childhood Chants

[Canary42]

Memory's a funny thing.  I'm not sure what triggered it, but I just remembered :-

 

I'm the king of the castle

Get down you dirty rascal

 

So, let's have some nostalgic chatterbank fun with a few of your youthful chants.

[Peter Pedant]

Opies wrote two books on this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Childrens-Books-Iona-Peter-Opie/s?rh=n%3A69%2Cp_27%3AIona+and+Peter+Opie

[Peter Pedant]

having read them - you find out that Mary Mary quite contrary is NOT about Mary Tudor.

Little Jack Horner is NOT about a profiteer from the  sale of churches Henry VIII

ring a ring a roses is NOT about the plague

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