World Rhyme a day Rhyme

While we have a week off, we can all go over the next rhymes.


Old King Cole

Old King Cole
Was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe
And he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle
And a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh, there's none so rare
As can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.

Lyrics taken from babycentre.co.uk




Oranges and Lemons

Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of St. Clements
I owe you five farthings
Say the bells of St. Martins
When will you pay me?
Say the bells at Old Bailey
When I grow rich
Say the bells at Shoreditch
When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney
I'm sure I don't know
Says the great bell of Bow
Here comes a candle to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head

Spoken:
Chip chop chip chop the last man's HEAD!

Lyrics taken from kididdles.com  (Kididdles has an enormous database of children's songs and nursery rhymes.  You can even download the songs and their lyrics and activity sheets and play the music from the site.)

That will take us up to the five rhymes and we're done!

If you want to take the time to find out the origin of the rhymes we recite or sing every wednsday, I found a great site called Nursery Rhymes Lyrics, Origins & History.  It has the history and stories behind children's nursery rhymes, many that we still learn today.  Another interesting site about the origins of some of the most popular nursery rhymes is on brainz.org