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One of us!", a reference to Tod Browning's Freaks (1932), [citation needed] and "I've got a rhyme that comes in a riddle/O-Hi-O!/What's round on the ends and high in the middle?/O-Hi-O!", a reference to a 1922 Broadway song by Alfred Bryan and Bert Hanlon, [10] often performed by the Ohio State University marching band.
The central figure of the rhyme, Arthur o' Bower, has long been identified as King Arthur, perhaps in his aspect as a storm god. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Alternatively, he may be King Arthur as the leader of the Wild Hunt , supernatural hunters in the night sky, belief in which apparently originated as an explanation for the weird noises made by high winds.
A later book in the English-to-French genre is N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes), published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay. [6] It contains some forty nursery rhymes, among which are Coucou doux de Ledoux (Cock-A-Doodle-Doo), Signe, garçon. Neuf Sikhs se pansent (Sing a Song of Sixpence) and Hâte, carrosse bonzes (Hot Cross Buns).
Candies of Halloween's Past. Head to any doorstep on October 31 and say "Trick-or-treat" and your bucket will be filled with the likes of Snickers, Reese's peanut butter cups, Skittles, and M&M's.
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
This also comes in a variety of flavors. Zaotang: This type of candy is made of maltose that people in China use as a sacrifice to the kitchen god around the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month just before Chinese New Year. Haw flakes: It is a sweet, tangy, disc shaped candy made from hawthorn fruit, packaged in a cylindrical paper wrapper.
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scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.