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"Oranges and Lemons" was the title of a square dance, published from the third (1657) edition onwards of The Dancing Master. [9] Similar rhymes naming churches and giving rhymes to their names can be found in other parts of England, including Shropshire and Derby, where they were sung on festival days on which bells would also have been rung. [1]
St Clement Eastcheap considers itself to be the church referred to in the nursery rhyme that begins "Oranges and lemons / Say the bells of St Clement's". So too does St Clement Danes Church, Westminster, whose bells ring out the traditional tune of the nursery rhyme three times a day.
Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun (Korean: 『동, 동, 동대문』) is a nursery rhyme sung among Korean children, usually while playing a game. It is also the name of the game. Its melody starts identically to the German children's song "Lasst uns froh und munter sein", but ends differently. [1]
Oranges and Lemons" is a nursery rhyme. Oranges and Lemons may also refer to: Oranges & Lemons (band), a Japanese pop band; Oranges & Lemons, an album by XTC; Oranges and Lemons, a 1923 film starring Stan Laurel; Oranges and Lemons, a 1991 British television film by Kay Adshead in the anthology series ScreenPlay "Oranges and Lemons", an episode ...
The band name "Oranges and Lemons" was initially recommended by a former member of the group. Apparently the band was not aware at the time that the name was actually derived from a British nursery rhyme and a title of an album by the British band XTC. [citation needed] Clem Castro and Mcoy Fundales met in high school in the mid-1990s. The duo ...
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, ... "Oranges and Lemons" (1744) ...
Oranges and Lemons: Great Britain 1744 [75] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man "Pat-a-cake", "patty-cake" or "pattycake" England 1698 [76] This rhyme first appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater: Great Britain 1797 [77]
Whilst the church has had bells for many centuries, as evidenced by its inclusion in the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme, the current ring of 12 bells (plus a "sharp second" to allow a lighter ring of eight bells using 1, sharp second and 3–8 to ring a true octave), hung for change ringing, dates from 1994 when the bells were cast by John ...