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The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies – the maids. The nonsense "rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk", albeit of a more lascivious variety.
The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century. [1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame. [1]
The first noting of the rhyme/song is by Alice Gomme in 1898 in her book The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [4] The author Karen Maitland has speculated that the song might be a reference to folklore about bluebells, in particular that a bluebell wood in bloom was seen as an enchanted place where fairies lived. A child who ...
The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book (c. 1744), but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare 's King Lear (III, vi) [ 1 ] when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says:
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
Pages in category "Traditional children's songs" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total. ... Doctor Foster (nursery rhyme) Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun;
Wind the Bobbin Up" is an English language children's nursery rhyme and singing game. Lyrics Among modern lyrics is: ... Iona and Peter Opie traced this rhyme back to ...
Children playing Pease Porridge Hot. [6] Schoolchildren often play Pease Porridge Hot by pairing off and clapping their hands together to the rhyme as follows: Pease (clap both hands to thighs) porridge (clap own hands together) hot (clap partner's hands), pease (clap both hands to thighs) porridge (clap own hands together) cold (clap partner's ...