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Charles H. Bennett's illustration of the rhyme from 1858 "Needles and Pins" is an English language proverb and nursery rhyme and was first recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). [1] Since then it has appeared largely unchanged in many other collections of nursery rhymes. Its usual form is
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
Another theory sees the rhyme as connected to Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), with "how does your garden grow" referring to her reign over her realm, "silver bells" referring to cathedral bells, "cockle shells" insinuating that her husband was not faithful to her, and "pretty maids all in a row" referring to her ladies-in-waiting – "The ...
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison checks in with a column about couplets, which poets like Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot used to great effect.
Denslow illustration of Simple Simon and the pie man. The rhyme is as follows; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale;
"I Put My Leg in My Pants", written by Jeff Moss, over footage of kids getting dressed. "I Want a Monster to Be My Friend", sung in audio track by a little girl ( Marilyn Sokol ) in The Sesame Street Monsters! , later in an insert for the show, the Betty Lou puppet lip-synched to Sokol's vocal track, lyrics by Robert Pierce and music by Sam ...
The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. [3] The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. [5]
For four generations, a different member of one Texas family has literally worn the pants. What started as a simple hand-me-down turned into tradition. In 1950, the Smith family's oldest brother ...