Talk:The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 7/Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c

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Many of the games described in this work contain songs and rhymes that are quoted in full. These are as follows:

I. Choral Games

 * 1) Sally Water
 * 2) Little Girl of mine
 * 3) What are you weeping for?
 * 4) Rosy Apple, Lemon, and Pear
 * 5) Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
 * 6) Kiss-in-the-ring
 * 7) Drop the Handkerchief
 * 8) My little Dog Buff
 * 9) (no song quoted for the game "Cat after Mouse")
 * 10) Green Gravel
 * 11) Wall-flowers

II. Dramatic Games

 * 1) Oranges and Lemons
 * 2) Fox and Goose
 * 3) When first we went to School
 * 4) Garden Gate
 * 5) May I go out to play?
 * 6) The Duke of Rideo
 * 7) A Young Man that wants a Sweetheart
 * 8) Gathering Nuts away
 * 9) Here we come gathering Nuts to-day
 * 10) The Lady of the Land
 * 11) The Lady of the Land continued
 * 12) Queen Anne
 * 13) An Old Woman from the Wood (though this is hardly a song and more a simple call-and-response)
 * 14) How many Miles to Gandigo?
 * 15) Basket

III. Games of Skill

 * Lamploo (a very short chant)

IV. Christmas and Indoor Games

 * The Cobbler
 * Buff
 * Here I lie, the length of a looby
 * Ragged-and-tough
 * A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog
 * One old ox opening oysters
 * The Twelve Days of Christmas
 * Green Grow the Rushes, O

a. Rustic rhymes

 * Vlee away blackie-cap
 * The robin and the wren
 * Millery, millery, dousty poll
 * Leädy-bird, leädy-bird, vlee away home
 * Kernel, come, kernel, hop over my thumb
 * Pimpernel, pimpernel, tell me true
 * Tissty-tossty, tell me true
 * Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
 * Snail, snail, come out of your hole and Crow, crow, get out of my sight
 * Handy-pandy
 * Went out in garden
 * Turn about, and wheel about
 * Double u, double o, double d, e
 * I owed your mother
 * F for Finis and F for Fig
 * My needle and thread
 * Doctor, Doctor, how's your wife?
 * Pick-pocket, penny nail
 * Now I'll begin: I one my mother and I'll go to A, I'll go to B (not sure if this counts as a song or rhyme tbh)
 * I went up one stair (ditto)
 * I am a gold lock (ditto)

b. Nursery or Domestic rhymes

 * John Smith fellow fine
 * One, two, Buckle my shoe
 * Rain, Rain, Go Away
 * Great A, little a
 * Knock at the door
 * This little pig went to market
 * Shoe the little horse, and shoe the little mare
 * Pat a cëake, pat a cëake, bëaker's man
 * This is the way the little girl walks
 * Little boys and girls walk, walk, walk

c. Counting out or "Lot" rhymes

 * One-ry, oo-ry, ick-ry, an, Hoky, poky, wangery, fum, One a zoll, zen a zoll, zig a zoll, zan, Onery, youery, ickery, Ann, Onery, twory, Dickery, Davy, Hokey, pokey, winkey, wum
 * Dickory, dickory, dock
 * Whippence, whoppence
 * Oon, two, dree, vour, Gargy, Pargy, how's yer wife?', Zee zaw, Margery Daw, 'Pon my life an' honner!

VI. Riddles

 * 1) Which would you rather have, a rusty rag, a sunburnt cake, or a blackbird under the bush?
 * 2) As white as milk, an' 'tisn' milk
 * 3) Long legs, crooked thighs
 * 4) There is a little house; and in that little house there is a little room &c.
 * 5) There was a thing just four weeks old
 * 6) There was a king met a king
 * 7) Little Miss Etticott
 * 8) I saw a fish-pond all on fire
 * Riddles (Barnes)

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:27, 20 June 2024 (UTC)