I’ve been sending myself slightly crazy (difficult to spot the difference). Over the last couple of days. Trying to remember a nursery rhyme. Something about cockle shells & growing your garden? What is it called? Is it a nursery rhyme?
I’m sure you lot will be able to put me out of my misery.
There's the nursery rhyme:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
or
Bluebells, cockle shells, evie, ivy, over. I like coffee, I like tea, I like the boys and the boys like me.
Which is a skipping song there are more verses to it but I can't remember them.
I never skipped to that song!!
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, some say that the rhyme is about Our Lady's Convent, the cockle shells are pilgrims and the pretty maids are nuns.
OR it could be Mary Queen of Scots............and there's a version that has "cuckolds all in a row".
Thanks ladies. That’s the one. I was think maybe I could loosely base the next year’s barrow money box
on that nursery rhyme.
Never heard that skipping song before.
Interesting to find out what it’s about. Because it makes very little sense
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I skipped to bluebells, cockleshells at school, but our version went, "Bluebells, cockleshells, eevery, ivory, over. Mother's in the kitchen, doing a bit of stitching, how many stitches can she do? One! Two! Three!" And so on, counting skips as you went.